Infección por VIH en Cuba por transmisión vertical: Reporte de nueve casos fatales en 10 años / HIV mother to child transmission: Report of nine Cuban fatal cases in ten years
Rev. chil. infectol
;
25(1): 41-48, feb. 2008. ilus, tab
Artigo
em Espanhol
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| ID: lil-473650
ABSTRACT
Vertical transmission of HIV infection constitutes one of the most sensitive pillars of the current pandemic of this disease. This article carries out a report of the nine Cuban children who acquired this way the infection and died between 1986 and 2006. Prophylactic management of the cases and the clinical and anatomic pathological manifestations of those in whom autopsy was performed are described. The average gestational age was of 37.6 weeks, four of the pregnancies were captured late. Six children were born by caesarean section and in all transmission were presumably intrauterine. The average birth weight was 2786 grams. Four mother-sibling binomial received prophylaxis with AZT. The autopsy was carried out only in 4 children.
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Assunto principal:
Complicações Infecciosas na Gravidez
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Zidovudina
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Infecções por HIV
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Transmissão Vertical de Doenças Infecciosas
/
Fármacos Anti-HIV
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo observacional
Limite:
Criança, pré-escolar
/
Feminino
/
Humanos
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Lactente
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Masculino
/
Gravidez
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe
/
Cuba
Idioma:
Espanhol
Revista:
Rev. chil. infectol
Assunto da revista:
Doenças Transmissíveis
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
Cuba
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí/CU
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