Publications by authors named "A Camiro-Zuniga"
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- Kaposi sarcoma (KS) remains a common cancer in AIDS patients in Mexico, highlighting issues with early HIV diagnosis despite access to treatment.
- The study analyzed 18 cases of KS in HIV patients who died within 30 days of hospital admission, revealing a young median age of 31 and significant delays in both admission and HIV diagnosis.
- The findings emphasize the need for improved early detection strategies, as increased screening could reduce KS-related deaths and lead to savings in healthcare costs.
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- The study aimed to analyze how often mucocutaneous manifestations occur in people living with HIV and how these relate to their CD4+ T cell counts and HIV viral loads.
- It involved a cross-sectional review of 659 HIV patients from 1992 to 2022, finding that opportunistic infections were the most common skin issues, with Kaposi sarcoma being the most frequently diagnosed condition.
- The results showed a high clinicopathological concordance rate of 80.4%, underscoring the need for accurate skin biopsies to help in diagnosing various skin conditions in this patient population.
Suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in people with HIV, even during sustained viral suppression, is associated with persistent inflammation, immune activation, and coagulopathy. Persistently low CD4-CD8 Ratio has been also associated with residual inflammation, is a good predictor of increased risk of death and more widely available than inflammatory biomarkers. We tested the hypothesis that the CD4-CD8 Ratio is associated with ART adherence during periods of complete viral suppression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Objectives: Hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) is a major cause of co-morbidity in people living with HIV (PLWHIV). The modes of HCV transmission in the local population of PLWHIV are still unclear. We conducted this study to identify risk factors for HCV transmission amongst PLWHIV in central Mexico.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeveral studies have identified main changes in T- and B-lymphocyte subsets during chronic HIV infection, but few data exist on how these subsets behave during the initial phase of HIV infection. We enrolled 22 HIV-infected patients during the acute stage of infection before the initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Patients had blood samples drawn previous to ART initiation (T0), and at 2 (T1) and 12 (T2) months after ART initiation.
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