Effect of a previous history of antiretroviral treatment on the clinical picture of patients with co-infection of SARS-CoV-2 and HIV: A preliminary study

Objectives: We explored the effect of antiretroviral treatment (ART) history on clinical characteristics of patients with SARS-CoV-2 and HIV co-infection. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 20 patients with laboratory-confirmed co-infection of SARS-CoV-2 and HIV in a designated hospital. Patients were divided into medicine (n = 12) and non-medicine (n = 8) groups according to previous ART history before SARS-CoV-2 infection. Results: The median age was 46.5 years and 15 (75%) were female. Ten patients had initial negative RT-PCR on admission, five of which had normal computed tomography (CT) appearance and four were asymptomatic. Lymphocytes were low in nine patients (45%); CD4 cell count and CD4/CD8 were low in all patients. The predominant CT features in 19 patients were multiple (42%) ground-glass opacities (58%) and consolidations (32%). Erythrocyte sedimentation rate was significantly lower in the medicine than the non-medicine group [median (interquartile range, IQR): 14.0 (10.0–34.0) vs 51.0 (35.8–62.0), P = 0.005]. Nineteen patients (95%) were discharged with a median hospital stay of 30 days (IQR 26–30). Conclusions: Most patients with SARS-CoV-2 and HIV co-infection exhibited mild to moderate symptoms. The milder inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2 infection might be associated with a previous history of ART in HIV-infected patients..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:100

Enthalten in:

International Journal of Infectious Diseases - 100(2020), Seite 141-148

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jia Liu [VerfasserIn]
Wenjuan Zeng [VerfasserIn]
Yukun Cao [VerfasserIn]
Yue Cui [VerfasserIn]
Yumin Li [VerfasserIn]
Sheng Yao [VerfasserIn]
Osamah Alwalid [VerfasserIn]
Fan Yang [VerfasserIn]
Yanqing Fan [VerfasserIn]
Heshui Shi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiretroviral therapy
Characteristics
Coronavirus disease 2019
HIV
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction
Serum antibodies

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2020.08.045

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ037192167