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Incidência de hepatite viral C em pacientes em hemodiálise no Brasil entre 2000...
Cherchiglia,Mariangela Leal; Giordano,Luiz Flávio Couto; Machado,Elaine Leandro; Gomes,Isabel Cristina; Carmo,Ricardo AndradeResumo: O estudo visou estimar a incidência dos fatores associados à soroconversão para o anti-HCV em pacientes em hemodiálise no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). Trata-se de um estudo prospectivo, não concorrente, utilizando dados de pacientes identificados por relacionamento determinístico-probabilístico nos registros dos sistemas de informação do SUS. Foram incluídos 47.079 pacientes que iniciaram em hemodiális...
Sexual dysfunction and dissatisfaction in chronic hepatitis C patients
Fábregas,Bruno Cópio; Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Ávila,Renata Eliane de; Faria,Marjore Novaes; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Teixeira,Antônio LúcioIntroductionThe prevalence of sexual dysfunction (SD) and dissatisfaction with sexual life (DSL) in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection (CHC) was jointly investigated via a thorough psychopathological analysis, which included dimensions such as fatigue, impulsiveness, psychiatric comorbidity, health-related quality of life (HRQL) and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.MethodsMale and fe...
Health related quality of life among patients with chronic hepatitis C: a cross...
Fábregas,Bruno Cópio; Ávila,Renata Eliane de; Faria,Marjore Novaes; Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Teixeira,Antonio LúcioINTRODUCTION: Chronic hepatitis C virus infection patients have higher rates of psychiatric disorders than the general population. Chronic hepatitis C virus infection is known to be associated with impaired health related quality of life. To our knowledge, there is no previous research of health related quality of life in chronic hepatitis C patients that combined structured psychiatric interview and careful ps...
Custo-efetividade dos análogos de nucleosídeos/nucleotídeos para hepatite crôni...
Almeida,Alessandra Maciel; Silva,Anderson Lourenço da; Brandão,Cristina Mariano Ruas; Cherchiglia,Mariângela Leal; Andrade,Eli Iola GurgelOBJETIVO: Conduzir uma análise de custo-efetividade das alternativas medicamentosas com terapia de resgate na recaída por resistência viral para tratamento de pacientes com hepatite crônica B (HCB). MÉTODOS: Coorte hipotética de pacientes com HCB, HBeAg negativo, sem evidência clínica ou histológica de cirrose, DNA do VHB detectável, diagnóstico histológico da doença, HBsAg positivo no soro por mais de seis mes...
Eficácia do adefovir dipivoxil, entecavir e telbivudina para o tratamento da he...
Almeida,Alessandra Maciel; Ribeiro,Andréia Queiroz; Pádua,Cristiane Aparecida Menezes de; Brandão,Cristina Mariano Ruas; Andrade,Eli Iôla GurgelINTRODUÇÃO: A hepatite crônica B é uma das doenças infecciosas mais frequentes no mundo e constitui um grave problema de saúde pública MÉTODOS: Para avaliar a eficácia dos análogos de núcleosídeo/nucletídeo utilizados no seu tratamento (adefovir dipivoxil, entecavir e telbivudina) foi conduzida uma revisão sistemática de ensaios clínicos randomizados. Foram consultadas, dentre outras, as bases de dados PubMed e...
Hyaluronic acid in the evaluation of liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis ...
Ávila,Renata Eliane de; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Farah,Kátia de Paula; Teixeira,Antônio Lúcio; Coimbra,Lucas Viana; Antunes,Carlos MaurÃcio de FigueiredoBACKGROUND: This study evaluated the role of HA as a marker of liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C on haemodialysis. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study in which 52 patients were divided into two groups: Group 1: patients with hepatitis C and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing haemodialysis (n = 23); and Group 2: patients with hepatitis C without ESRD (n = 29). Plasma levels of HA were assoc...
Soluble inflammatory markers as predictors of hepatocellular damage and therape...
Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Teixeira,Antonio Lucio; Rocha,Manoel Otávio da CostaHepatitis C is an important burden worldwide being an important cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer in different parts of the world. Host immune response, especially T helper type 1 (Th1) cell-mediated, seems to play an important role in disease progression but is also crucial for viral elimination following specific therapy. Immune activation can be evaluated using peripheral levels of different cytokines, suc...
Clinical management of a patient with drug dependence who attempted suicide whi...
Fábregas,Bruno Cópio; Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Marciano,Renata Cristiane; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Teixeira,Antônio LúcioPegylated interferon-alpha combined with ribavirin is the current gold standard treatment for chronic hepatitis C. Illicit drug dependence is not a rare co-morbidity among chronic hepatitis C population, what can make antiviral treatment an outmost challenge. Despite high sustained virological response rate following antiviral treatment, serious psychiatric adverse reactions may occur, like depression and suici...
Prevalence of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and C among adults with mental illness...
Guimarães,Mark Drew Crosland; Campos,Lorenza Nogueira; Melo,Ana Paula Souto; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Machado,Carla Jorge; Acurcio,Francisco de AssisABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: There is evidence that patients with mental illness have increased prevalence of sexually transmitted infections, but data in Brazil are scarce. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of HIV, hepatitis C and B, and syphilis among patients with mental illness in Brazil. METHOD: A multicenter representative sample of adults with mental illness was randomly selected from 26...
HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B and C prevalence among patients with mental illn...
Campos,Lorenza Nogueira; Guimarães,Mark Drew Crosland; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Melo,Ana Paula Souto; Oliveira,Helian Nunes de; Elkington,KatherineA limited number of studies worldwide have investigated the prevalence of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B and C infection among psychiatric patients. However, prevalence of these infections in the population with chronic mental illness has not been clearly established. Most of the published papers are from developed countries and have derived from relatively small and non-representative samples. We performed a s...