Recuento de linfocitos CD4 e infecciones oportunistas en pacientes con VIH en un hospital de Chiclayo, Perú, 2020: CD4 lymphocyte count and opportunistic infections in patients with HIV in a hospital in Chiclayo, Peru, 2020

CD4 lymphocyte count and opportunistic infections in patients with HIV in a hospital in Chiclayo, Peru, 2020

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Objective. To determine the relationship between CD4 lymphocytes with opportunistic infections in patients with HIV infection in a hospital in Chiclayo, Peru, 2020. Material and methods: The study was observational, retrospective and analytical cross-sectional, the study population was 135 medical records. of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of HIV-AIDS who were treated in the infectious disease service. Results: The male sex predominated (81.5%), 97.8% were between 18 and 59 years old and were mostly single (69.6%). The most frequent infections were gastroenteritis (29.6%), tuberculosis (9.6%) and toxoplasmosis (8.1%), the majority presented a CD4+ lymphocyte count less than 200 cells/uL, in addition the most frequent clinical stages were B3 and B2 (42.2%). An association was found between the frequency of opportunistic infections and the CD4+ count (p=0.001), these were more frequent in patients with a CD4+ lower than 200 cells/uL (71.4%). Conclusions: The study population had a high frequency of opportunistic infections, which were associated with a CD4+ lymphocyte count of less than 200 cells/uL.