2004
DOI: 10.1590/s1806-37132004000200011
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Tuberculose associada à AIDS: características demográficas, clínicas e laboratoriais de pacientes atendidos em um serviço de referência do sul do Brasil

Abstract: INTRODUÇÃO: A sinergia entre a tuberculose e o vírus da imunodeficiência humana é responsável pelo aumento da morbi-mortalidade dos pacientes com AIDS. OBJETIVO: Delinear o perfil de pacientes com tuberculose e AIDS na cidade de Rio Grande (RS) relacionando dados demográficos, clínicos e laboratoriais. MÉTODO: A amostra foi constituída por todos os casos de tuberculose confirmados pelo isolamento de Mycobacterium tuberculosis ocorridos no Serviço de AIDS do Hospital Universitário/FURG entre setembro de 1997 e … Show more

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“…In a study of the profile of tuberculosis patients with AIDS, imprisonment was reported to be a risk factor for noncompliance, as were illicit drug use and alcoholism. (6) The patients in the present study were young working-age adults, and there were more cases of noncompliance among the youngest individuals. Similar results in terms of age group have been described in other studies.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 57%
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“…In a study of the profile of tuberculosis patients with AIDS, imprisonment was reported to be a risk factor for noncompliance, as were illicit drug use and alcoholism. (6) The patients in the present study were young working-age adults, and there were more cases of noncompliance among the youngest individuals. Similar results in terms of age group have been described in other studies.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 57%
“…(5) That decision was prompted by the significant increase in the number of cases of the disease, mostly due to the advent of HIV infection, as occurred in Brazil as well. (6,7) According to the World Health Organization reports for 2009, (8) Brazil ranks 18th among the 22 countries that, together, account for most (80%) of all tuberculosis cases worldwide, improving its situation in relation to previous years, when it ranked 16th. (9) According to the Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação (SINAN, Brazilian Case Registry Database), between 1999 and 2008, the incidence rate of tuberculosis dropped from 51.54/100,000 population to 37.12/100,000 population, and the absolute number of new cases decreased from 82,934 to 70,379.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The States of RJ and SP contain the highest levels of TB in the country, while RS has extremely high levels of patients co-infected by TB-AIDS [10,30,31,32,33].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As variáveis selecionadas a partir da base de dados do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) foram consideradas para o estudo pelo fato de corresponderem a características dos doentes de TB apontadas em diversos estudos que tratam do assunto (Boffo et al, 2004;Vendramini et al, 2006;Bierrenbach et al, 2007;Brunello et al, 2009) Após este procedimento partiu-se então, para a geocodificação dos dados obtidos do TB-WEB por meio da interpolação linear do número do endereço a um ponto do segmento do logradouro correspondente, situado entre dois pontos que definem a faixa de numeração daquele segmento de logradouro.…”
Section: Relacionadas Aos Setores Censitários (Ibge 2001)unclassified
“…Com relação à forma clínica a situação não difere quando se compara com os casos de TB sem a associação com a AIDS, uma vez que a forma pulmonar exclusiva é a que predomina dentre as notificações tanto dos casos isolados de TB quanto entre os soropositivos (Boffo et al, 2004).…”
Section: Aspectos éTicosunclassified