Immunologic biomarkers, morbidity and mortality among HIV patients hospitalised in a Tertiary Care Hospital in the Brazilian Amazon.
Wellington Mota GamaCarlos Henrique Michiles FrankTaynná Vernalha Rocha AlmeidaDaniel Silva Dos SantosYury Oliveira ChavesDanielle Furtado da SilvaPatrícia Puccinelli OrlandiFlávio Ribeiro PereiraGleicienne Feliz MagalhãesBárbara Jóse BaptistaViviane Lago de Oliveira SilvaAntônio Alcirley da Silva BalieiroMonique Freire SantanaRoberta Lins GonçalvesAllyson Guimarães da CostaMarcelo Cordeiro Dos SantosLuís Carlos de Lima FerreiraMarcus Vinicius Guimaraes LacerdaPaulo Afonso NogueiraPublished in: BMC infectious diseases (2021)
The advanced immunosuppression characterized by the opportunistic infections presented in these HIV/AIDS inpatients was the major factor of mortality. The role of platelet activation in worse outcomes of hospitalisation and the IL-8 associated with the context of advanced immunosuppression may be promising markers in the prediction of mortality in HIV/AIDS patients.
Keyphrases
- hiv aids
- antiretroviral therapy
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv infected
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- hepatitis c virus
- risk factors
- patient reported outcomes
- coronary artery disease
- metabolic syndrome
- adipose tissue
- south africa
- patient reported
- weight loss