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Assessment of liver disease by non-invasive methods in perinatally infected Bra...
Gouvêa,Aida de Fátima Thomé Barbosa; Carvalho Filho,Roberto; Machado,Daisy Maria; Carmo,Fabiana Bononi do; Beltrão,Suenia Vasconcelos; Sampaio,LaureneABSTRACT Introduction: Effective and long-term combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) has decreased morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected individuals. Despite treatment advances, HIV-infected children continue to develop noninfectious conditions, including liver fibrosis. Methods: Cross-sectional study designed to identify liver fibrosis in HIV-infected adolescents and young adults, in an outpatients clinic o...
Persistence of hepatitis A virus antibodies after primary immunization and resp...
Gouvêa,Aída de Fátima Thomé Barbosa; Pinto,Maria Isabel de Moraes; Miyamoto,Maristela; Machado,Daisy Maria; Pessoa,Silvana DuarteOBJECTIVE: To assess possible factors associated with the loss of antibodies to hepatitis A 7 years after the primary immunization in children of HIV-infected mothers and the response to revaccination in patients seronegative for hepatitis A. METHODS: Quantification of HAV antibodies by electrochemiluminescence was performed in 39 adolescents followed up at the Pediatric Aids Clinic of Federal University of São...
Noncirrhotic portal hypertension in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infect...
Gouvêa,Aída de Fátima Thomé Barbosa; Machado,Daisy Maria; Beltrão,Suênia Cordeiro de Vasconcelos; Carmo,Fabiana Bononi doOBJECTIVE: To alert the pediatrician who is following up HIV-infected patients about the possibility of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension (NCPH) in this period of life, in order to avoid the catastrophic consequences of this disease as bleeding esophageal varices. CASE DESCRIPTION: A 13 years old HIV-infected patient by vertical route was receiving didanosine (ddI) for 12 years. Although the HIV viral load had ...