88753

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS OF HIV PATIENTS ATTENDING THE ABBASIA FEVER HOSPITAL

Article

Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

HIV/ADIS is one of uprising problem in Egypt as UNAIDS Estimated that more than 22 thousand people infected at the end of 2018 this represent less than 1% of population. Without screening in high risk groups and prompt management of infected patients this may lead to spreading of infection and death from opportunistic infections. The present study identified clinical presentations, characteristics of patients and risk factors associated with infection in positive HIV patients attended to Abassia Fever Hospital in a year (2015-2016). Data of clinical presentations and demographic characteristics of 100 consecutive patients were collected during admission. The results showed that 82% of patients were from urban area and 18% from rural area and 93% of patients were smoker (65%), married (80%) and were on regular
HAART. Regarding clinical manifestations and CD4 count; 68% of the patients had ADIS criteria, 30% had diarrhea, 28% had chest infections, 59% had anemia and 64% had CD4 count less than 200cells/ μL however a single case had presented with Kaposi sarcoma.

DOI

10.21608/jesp.2020.88753

Keywords

Egypt, Abbasia fever hospital, HIV/ADIS, HIV clinical presentations

Authors

First Name

MOHAMED

Last Name

EL BADRY

MiddleName

MOHEI

Affiliation

Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Aswan University, Cairo 11566, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

HAGAR

Last Name

ELESSAWY

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Internal Medicine Gastroenterology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

FATMA

Last Name

ALI-ELDEEN

MiddleName

AHMED

Affiliation

Department of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University Cairo 11566, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

50

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

13315

Issue Date

2020-04-01

Receive Date

2020-05-12

Publish Date

2020-04-01

Page Start

55

Page End

62

Print ISSN

1110-0583

Online ISSN

2090-2549

Link

https://jesp.journals.ekb.eg/article_88753.html

Detail API

https://jesp.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=88753

Order

7

Type

Original Article

Type Code

1,127

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology

Publication Link

https://jesp.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS OF HIV PATIENTS ATTENDING THE ABBASIA FEVER HOSPITAL

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023