| acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) in brazil. necropsy findings. | according to the 15 autopsies performed at the department of pathological anatomy, escola paulista de medicina, são paulo, brazil, it was confirmed that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) occurs preferably in young homosexual males, who die in a short period of time of the disease, which leads to a consumptive state verified by cachexia of the cadavers. the most affected organs of this series were the lungs and encephalum, exactly the ones responsible for the immediate cause of death. in ... | 1987 | 3620018 |
| autopsy-proven determinants of death in hiv-infected patients treated for pulmonary tuberculosis in sao paulo, brazil. | the aim of this work is to describe and compare pulmonary pathology and proven causes of death in hiv-infected and non-hiv patients treated for tuberculosis, to identify the presence and extension of the lesions, and to suggest appropriate interventions based on the results. of 246 adult patients (aged > 15) autopsied with tuberculosis and tested for hiv infection at hospital das clinicas, school of medicine, são paulo university, from january 1994 to december 1996, 100 hiv-infected patients wer ... | 2002 | 12092770 |
| autopsy findings in aids patients from a reference hospital in brazil: analysis of 92 cases. | the aim of this work was to evaluate the opportunistic diseases and the cause of death of aids patients who were submitted to autopsy. we included all aids patients submitted to autopsy at a reference hospital of a medical school in são paulo, brazil, during the period of 1993 to 2000. out of 1,478 autopsy cases in this period, 92 patients (6.22%) had the previously confirmed diagnosis of aids. sixty-nine patients (75%) were men ranging in age from 19 to 68 years (mean 34.8). eighty-five patient ... | 2003 | 14989493 |
| duplication of peri-kappab and nf-kappab sites of the first human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (hiv-2) transmission in brazil. | after the identification of hiv-2 in 1986, most of the cases reported have been concentrated in west africa. we identified a case of hiv-2 infection in são paulo, brazil of a 45-year-old female who presented with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, with a cd4 count of 22 cells/ml. dna samples from this patient were subjected to end-point pcr amplification of the ltr region. clones were sequenced and subjected to phylogenetic analyses. all clones were subtype a related, and four presented an insertio ... | 2005 | 16386115 |