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Clinical features and follow-up of patients with disseminated histoplasmosis and AIDS in a reference hospital in Cearà State / CaracterÃsticas clÃnicas e evoluÃÃo dos pacientes com histoplasmose disseminada e AIDS atendidos em hospital de referÃncia do CearÃ

Desde o inÃcio da epidemia de HIV no CearÃ, a histoplasmose disseminada (HD) à detectada com freqÃÃncia crescente em pacientes com aids. De modo a conhecer as caracterÃsticas clÃnico-laboratoriais, evoluÃÃo e a sobrevida da coinfecÃÃo HD/aids, foram analisados retrospectivamente 134 prontuÃrios de pacientes com HD e 119 prontuÃrios com outras doenÃas, internados de 1999 a 2005 no hospital-referÃncia para HIV no CearÃ. Dados dos pacientes foram colhidos do momento da admissÃo atà dois anos apÃs. O programa SPSS versÃo 10.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) foi utilizado para as anÃlises uni e multivariadas de dados clÃnicos e laboratoriais. Os testes de Kaplan-Meier e Log-rank foram utilizados para estimar sobrevida. Eram do sexo masculino 71,6% dos pacientes com HD e 79,8% dos pacientes sem HD. A mÃdia de idade foi 35,5  8,9 anos e mais de 90% declararam ter renda inferior a trÃs salÃrios mÃnimos em ambos os grupos. Vinte e seis pacientes (50%) com HD tiveram internamento anterior por infecÃÃo respiratÃria nÃo tuberculosa contra 13 (22,8%) do grupo sem HD (p<0,05). Pacientes com HD apresentaram com maior freqÃÃncia febre (94%), diÃria (92,7%), acima de 38,5ÂC (78,6%), com calafrios (41,1%), alÃm de tosse (77,1%), perda de peso (89,9%), diarrÃia (68,9%), vÃmitos (47%), hepatomegalia (43,2%), esplenomegalia (24,2%), lesÃes de pele (14,9%) e icterÃcia (14,4%) (p<0,05). à admissÃo hospitalar, grupo com HD apresentava mÃdias significativamente mais baixas de leucÃcitos (4594,5Â3873,6 versus 6.030Â-3.986cÃls/mmÂ), plaquetas (121.737Â101.054 versus 218.739Â130.320cÃls/mmÂ) tempo de ativaÃÃo de protrombina (56,6Â17,6 versus 73,8Â18,2%) e CD4 (78,3Â105,1 versus 112,3Â114,5cÃls/mmÂ), assim como mÃdias significativamente mais altas de creatinina (1,63Â1,63 versus 1,16Â1,19mg/dL), ureia (60,9Â59,6 versus 39,7Â35,8mg/dL), LDH (4249Â4248 versus 605Â654UI/L), AST (245Â289 versus 60Â50UI/L), ALT (138Â409 versus 43Â40UI/L) e fosfatase alcalina (409Â475 versus 205Â257UI/L) (p<0,05). Hemoglobina&#61603;8g/L e CD4&#61603;100cÃls/mm (p<0,05) tambÃm predominaram dentre os pacientes com HD. InsuficiÃncia respiratÃria e sepse foram complicaÃÃes mais freqÃentes em pacientes com HD (p<0,05). O diagnÃstico foi dado por pesquisa direta (72,4%) e/ou cultura (49,3%) de material biolÃgico. O Ãbito durante o internamento foi maior entre os pacientes com HD (32,8% versus 25,2%), porÃm sem significÃncia estatÃstica (p=0,213). à admissÃo, foram fatores de risco relacionados ao Ãbito de pacientes com HD: vÃmitos, dispnÃia, dor pleurÃtica, insuficiÃncia respiratÃria, hemoglobina&#61603;8g/L, urÃia&#8805;40mg/dL e creatinina&#8805;1,5mg/dL (p<0,05). AnÃlise multivariada mostrou hemoglobina&#61603;8g/L e urÃia&#8805;40mg/dL à admissÃo como fatores de risco independentes para o Ãbito, com significÃncia de 10%. Foi notada recaÃda por HD em 21,8% dos casos, durante todo o perÃodo do estudo; observou-se tambÃm uma mortalidade na recaÃda de 64,7%. A anÃlise de sobrevida mostrou que, durante o primeiro mÃs, a mortalidade à significativamente maior para o grupo com HD (p<0,05), equiparando-se aos controles a partir do terceiro mÃs de acompanhamento. Em conclusÃo, os pacientes com HD apresentaram, caracteristicamente, febre mais elevada, mais internamentos anteriores por infecÃÃo respiratÃria nÃo tuberculosa, mais complicaÃÃes clÃnicas, e tiveram como fatores de risco independente para Ãbito anemia importante e elevaÃÃo de urÃia. / Since the beginning of HIV epidemic in CearÃ, disseminated histoplasmosis (DH) has been detected more often among aids patients. In order to know better clinical and laboratorial features, follow up and survival analysis of DH/AIDS co-infection, 134 medical records of inpatients with DH and 119 of patients without DH, from a reference hospital of CearÃ, from 1999 to 2005 were analysed. The data was obtained from admission through two years later. Univariate and multivariate analisys of clinical and laboratory data was conduct with SPSS version 10.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). Kaplan-Meier and Log-rank tests were used for survival analisys. Most (71,6% with DH and 79,8% without DH) of patients were men. The mean  SD age of the patients was 35,5  8,9 years and more than 90% of the patients had very low incomes in both groups. Twenty six patients (50%) with DH had a previous hospital admission for non tuberculosis respiratory infection compared to 13 (22.8%) patients without DH (p<0,05). Patients with DH had more fever (94%), daily (92,7%), higher than 38.5ÂC (78,6%), chills (41,1%), cough (77,1%), weight loss (89,9%), diarrhea (68,9%), vomiting (47%), enlarged liver (43,2%) and spleen (24,2%), skin lesions (14,9%) and jaundice (14,4%) (p<0.05). At hospital admission patients with DH had lower white cell count (4594,5Â3873,6 versus 6030Â3986cells/mmÂ), platelet count (121.737Â101.054 versus 218.739Â130.320cells/mmÂ) prothrombin time (56,6Â17,6 versus 73,8Â18,2%) and CD4 cell count (78,3Â105,1 versus 112,3Â114,5cells/mmÂ),as well as higher levels of serum creatinin (1,63Â1,63 versus 1,16Â1,19mg/dL), serum urea (60,9Â59,6 versus 39,7Â35,8mg/dL), LDH (4249Â4248 versus 605Â654UI/L), AST (245Â289 versus 60Â50UI/L), ALT (138Â409 versus 43Â40UI/L) and alkaline phosphatase (409Â475 versus 205Â257UI/L) (p<0,05). Hemoglobin&#61603;8g/L and CD4 cell count&#61603;100cells/mm were more common in DH pactients (p<0,05). Respiratory failure (RF) and sepsis were more common complications in DH patients (p<0,05). The diagnosis was maken mostly through direct microscopy (72,4%) and or through culture (49,3%) of biological material. Death during hospital stay was higher in DH patients (32,8% versus 25,2%) (p=0,213). At hospital admission, DH risk factors for death were: vomiting, dyspnea, respirophasic chest pain, RF, hemoglobin&#61603;8g/L, serum urea&#8805;40mg/dL and serum creatinine&#8805;1,5mg/dL (p<0,05). Multivariate analysis showed hemoglobin&#61603;8mg/dL, serum urea&#8805;40 mg/dL at hospital admission as independent risk factors for death, with 10% significance level. DH relapsing was noted in 21.8% of cases during the study period and 64,7% of them died. Survival analysis showed significant higher mortality in DH group during the first month (p<0,05); afterwards the rate of death was similar in both groups. In conclusion, patients with DH had higher fever, more previous hospital admission for non tuberculosis pulmonary infection, more clinical complications compared to patients without DH. And had anemia (hemoglobin<8g/dL) and elevated serum urea (urea&#8805;40mg/dL) as independent risk factors for death.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:www.teses.ufc.br:2478
Date26 August 2008
CreatorsLÃcia Borges Pontes
ContributorsTerezinha do Menino Jesus Silva LeitÃo, Elizabeth de Francesco Daher, Josà Wellington de Oliveira Lima, Jorge Luiz Nobre Rodrigues
PublisherUniversidade Federal do CearÃ, Programa de PÃs-GraduaÃÃo em SaÃde PÃblica, UFC, BR
Source SetsIBICT Brazilian ETDs
LanguagePortuguese
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcereponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFC, instname:Universidade Federal do Ceará, instacron:UFC
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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