López-Aldana JE, Rodríguez-Díaz KS, Vega-Vera A, Flórez-Valencia DH, Muñoz-Ardila FM

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ABSTRACT

Objective: To analyze the sociodemographic and clinical profile of patients with syphilis in the central nervous system in HIV co-infection.
Materials and Methods: A descriptive, observational and retrospective study was carried out at the University Hospital of Santander, in which patients diagnosed with HIV were included who had neurosyphilis confirmed by the study of cerebrospinal fluid. The inclusion criteria were age over 18 years as well as having performed cerebrospinal fluid studies and/or central nervous system imaging studies. The main measurements of the study were days of hospital stay, time since diagnosis of HIV, viral load, neurological symptoms and characteristics of the cerebrospinal fluid.
Resultados: All patients were in stage C of HIV, the CD4 count was below 200 CD4 in 6/9 patients. Headache, alterations in the state of consciousness, fever, meningeal symptoms with 4/9, and language alteration in 3/9 predominated as main symptoms.
Conclusions: Although it is necessary to expand the sample to obtain greater statistical power, this article allowed the beginning of the construction of the behavior of neurosyphilis in patients with HIV.

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