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SUBMITTER: Gama WM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7491275 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gama Wellington Mota WM Oliveira Lucas Barbosa LB Chaves Yury Oliveira YO Ribeiro Flavio F Almeida Taynná Vernalha Rocha TVR Baptista Barbara Jose Antunes BJA Santana Monique Freire MF Ferreira Luis Carlos LC Lacerda Marcus Vinicius Guimaraes MVG Nogueira Paulo Afonso PA Nogueira Paulo Afonso PA
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 20200914
Respiratory failure (RF) is the main cause of hospital admission in HIV/AIDS patients. This study assessed comorbidities and laboratory parameters in HIV/AIDS inpatients with RF (N = 58) in relation to those without RF (N = 36). Tuberculosis showed a huge relative risk and platelet counts were slightly higher in HIV/AIDS inpatients with RF. A flow cytometry assay for reactive oxygen species (ROS) showed lower levels in platelets of these patients in relation to the healthy subjects. However, whe ...[more]