Some clinical features and immunological changes in patients with AIDS
- Author:
Yen Ngoc Le
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
AIDS
- MeSH:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome;
immunology;
diagnosis
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2002;435(11):47-50
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Through the study carried out in 34 drug injection related AIDS patients in Binh Trieu hospital, which belongs to Binh Trieu center for rehabilitation and vocation in Ho Chi Minh City, the following conclusions have been gained: 1. 73.5% of the studied objects are over 40 years old and 91.2% of them are male. Most have low educational level, unemployed or are simple labour. Their HIV positive status is associated with unsafe practice, such as: long time of drug injection, high rate of sharing syringes and needles (77.8%), free sex and low rate of condom use (26.5%). 2. The common clinical features in AIDS patients include consistent fever, loss of weigh, consistent diarrhea and cough, etc. The most common opportunistic disease among people living with AIDS in Vietnam is tuberculosis (70.6%), candidiasis (41.2%), and other. 3. There are also immunological changes in AIDS patients: the decrease of T CD4, increases of T CD8, decrease of T CD4/T CD8 proportion. The IgG, IgA, IgM and beta2-microglobulin in the AIDS' serum are statistically higher than those in the healthy group.
