New HIV diagnoses in patients with COVID-19: two case reports and a brief literature review.
BMC Infect Dis
; 20(1): 771, 2020 Oct 19.
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| ID: mdl-33076830
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
COVID-19 is novel infectious disease with an evolving understanding of its epidemiology and clinical manifestations. Severe cases developed life-threatening complications, such as respiratory failure, shock, and multiple organs dysfunction. Immunocompromised patients often present atypical presentations of viral infected diseases. CASE PRESENTATION We report newly diagnosed HIV infections in two patients with COVID-19 in China. In our two cases, both patients with elevated IL-6 received Tocilizumab treatment, but did not present obvious therapeutic effect.CONCLUSIONS:
These cases highlight possible co-detection of known immunocompromised diseases such as HIV. The two cases we reported stressed the risk of misdiagnosis, especially during the pandemic of an infectious disease and the importance of extended testing even if in immune-compromised condition the immune state may be ignored.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Neumonía Viral
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Infecciones por VIH
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Infecciones por Coronavirus
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
BMC Infect Dis
Asunto de la revista:
DOENCAS TRANSMISSIVEIS
Año:
2020
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
China