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Withdrawal of maintenance therapy for cytomegalovirus retinitis in AIDS patient...
Waib, Luis Fernando; Bonon, Sandra Helena Alves; Salles, Angela Christina; Benard, Gil; Oliveira, Augusto César Penalva de; Pannuti, Claudio SergioBACKGROUND: Before the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), CMV retinitis was a common complication in patients with advanced HIV disease and the therapy was well established; it consisted of an induction phase to control the infection with ganciclovir, followed by a lifelong maintenance phase to avoid or delay relapses. METHODS: To determine the safety of CMV maintenance therapy withdr...
Prevalências do HBsAg, do anti-HBc e do anti-HCV na população de candidatos a d...
Gonçales Júnior, Fernando Lopes; Boccato, Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi; Pedro, Rogério de Jesus; Papaiordanou, Priscila Maria de OliveiraEm 29833 doadores pesquisados encontramos prevalência de 1,52% para o HBsAg e de 11% para o anti-HBc. A co-positividade anti-HBc/anti-HBs em 2783 doadores HBsAg negativos/anti-HBc positivos foi de 81,9%. A prevalência para o HBsAg é baixa nos doadores de Campinas, enquanto o anti-HBc apresenta-se com prevalência elevada quando comparado a outros países. A pesquisa do anti-HCV, em doadores de sangue de Campinas,...
Post-transfusional hepatitis in the city of Campinas, SP, Brazil: I. Incidence,...
Gonçales Júnior, Fernando Lopes; Pedro, Rogério de Jesus; Silva, Luiz Jacintho da; Boccato, Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi; Ramos, Marcelo CarvalhoWe have followed up 111 transfusion receptors in the ambulatory, for at least 180 days, in order to evaluate the occurence of post-transfusional hepatitis and the etiological agents involved in the disease in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil. At the end of the study we have diagnosed this hepatitis in 18 (16.2%) subjects. Out of these 18 subjects, 16 (89%) were caused by hepatitis C virus, 1 (5....
Post-transfusional hepatitis in the city of Campinas, SP, Brazil: II- Presence ...
Gonçales Júnior, Fernando Lopes; Pedro, Rogério de Jesus; Silva, Luiz Jacintho da; Boccato, Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi; Gonçales, Neiva Sellan LopesWe have analysed anti-HBc and anti-HCV antibodies in serum samples from 799 donors which had their blood or derivates transfused to 111 recipients. Anti-HBc and anti-HCV were reactive in respectively 9 and 2.1% of the donors tested. We have observed that among the 111 recipients, 44 had received at least one positive anti-HBc unit and 67 had been transfused only with negative anti-HBc, units. The risk of develo...
Listeriosis and AIDS: case report and literature review
Silva, Luiz Jancintho da; Resende, Mariângela R.; Abreu, William B. de; Aoki, Fransisco H.; Bocatto, Raquel B.S.; Branchinni, Maria Luiza MorettiA listeriose é uma infecção não incomum, geralmente associada com recém-nascidos e pacientes imunodeprimidos que tem sido poucas vezes encontrada em pacientes com AIDS. Esta escassez de relatos despertou o interesse de diversos investigadores. Neste artigo, os autores relatam um caso de septicemia e meningite por Listeria monocytogenes em paciente com AIDS e fazem uma revisão da literatura. Novos conhecimentos ...
Paracoccidioidomycosis and human immunodeficiency vírus infection
Pedro, Rogério de Jesus; Aoki, Francisco Hideo; Boccato, Raquel Silveira Bello Stucchi; Branchini, Maria Luiza Moretti; Gonçales Júnior, Fernando LopesWe present two cases of paracoccidioidorrvycosis, one occurring in an AIDS patient and the other in an HIV infected man. This is the first report of such association. The first patient, which was already followed for HIV infection (group IV-A) presented with high fever and hepatosplenomegaly. Plain X-ray, ultrasound and CT-scan of the abdomen showed solid nodules in the spleen, some of them with calcification. ...
Adverse effect of the intermittent use of rifampin tor leprosy treatment
Papaiordanou, Priscila Maria de Oliveira; Branchini, Maria Luiza Moretti; Gonçales Júnior, Fernando Lopes; Aoki, Francisco HideoThe authors present a case of acute renal failure, acute hemolysis and thrombocytopenia due to intermittent use of Rifampin for leprosy. These adverse reactions have rarely been discribed in the medical literature. During follow up there was recovery of renal function and complete remission of the hematological alterations. To our knowledge, this has been the first report of such adverse effects of Rifampin dur...