Evaluation of the histopathological hepatic lesions and opportunistic agents in Brazilian HIV patients Avaliação das alterações histológicas hepáticas e infecções oportunistas em pacientes brasileiros infectados pelo HIV

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Graziella Hanna Pereira, Diva Carvalho Collarile Yamagutti, João Silva de Mendonça
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2010
• Subjects: Biópsia hepática; Micobacteriose; SIDA; Histologia hepática; Liver biopsy; Mycobacteriosis; AIDS; Liver histology; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Sida
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822010000100001; https://doaj.org/article/560097c12b4e4667b2610c11c5aa3143

INTRODUCTION: to evaluated the type histopathological hepatic lesions and opportunistic agents in Brazilian HIV-infected patients. METHODS: we examined 52 percutaneous liver biopsies of 50 HIV-infected patients who had at least two of the following conditions: fever of unknown origin, unexplained se...