Routine Immediate Eye Examination at the Point of Care for Diagnosis of AIDS-Related Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Among Patients With a CD4 Count <100 in Myanmar

A retrospective review of diagnosis of cytomegalovirus retinitis (CMVR) before and after introduction of routine immediate eye examination among AIDS patients in Myanmar with an absolute CD4 T-cell count <100 cells/μL demonstrated an increased detection of CMVR from 1.1% (14/1233) to 10.7% (65/60...

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Autores principales: Ei, Win Le Shwe Sin, Pyar Soe, Kyi, Hilbig, Adelene, Murray, Jillian, Heiden, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31304189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz280
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author Ei, Win Le Shwe Sin
Pyar Soe, Kyi
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Heiden, David
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description A retrospective review of diagnosis of cytomegalovirus retinitis (CMVR) before and after introduction of routine immediate eye examination among AIDS patients in Myanmar with an absolute CD4 T-cell count <100 cells/μL demonstrated an increased detection of CMVR from 1.1% (14/1233) to 10.7% (65/608), an improvement of ~10-fold. Diagnosis of CMVR was achieved a mean of 2 days after clinic enrollment.
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spelling pubmed-66128042019-07-12 Routine Immediate Eye Examination at the Point of Care for Diagnosis of AIDS-Related Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Among Patients With a CD4 Count <100 in Myanmar Ei, Win Le Shwe Sin Pyar Soe, Kyi Hilbig, Adelene Murray, Jillian Heiden, David Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report A retrospective review of diagnosis of cytomegalovirus retinitis (CMVR) before and after introduction of routine immediate eye examination among AIDS patients in Myanmar with an absolute CD4 T-cell count <100 cells/μL demonstrated an increased detection of CMVR from 1.1% (14/1233) to 10.7% (65/608), an improvement of ~10-fold. Diagnosis of CMVR was achieved a mean of 2 days after clinic enrollment. Oxford University Press 2019-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6612804/ /pubmed/31304189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz280 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Report
Ei, Win Le Shwe Sin
Pyar Soe, Kyi
Hilbig, Adelene
Murray, Jillian
Heiden, David
Routine Immediate Eye Examination at the Point of Care for Diagnosis of AIDS-Related Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Among Patients With a CD4 Count <100 in Myanmar
title Routine Immediate Eye Examination at the Point of Care for Diagnosis of AIDS-Related Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Among Patients With a CD4 Count <100 in Myanmar
title_full Routine Immediate Eye Examination at the Point of Care for Diagnosis of AIDS-Related Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Among Patients With a CD4 Count <100 in Myanmar
title_fullStr Routine Immediate Eye Examination at the Point of Care for Diagnosis of AIDS-Related Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Among Patients With a CD4 Count <100 in Myanmar
title_full_unstemmed Routine Immediate Eye Examination at the Point of Care for Diagnosis of AIDS-Related Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Among Patients With a CD4 Count <100 in Myanmar
title_short Routine Immediate Eye Examination at the Point of Care for Diagnosis of AIDS-Related Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Among Patients With a CD4 Count <100 in Myanmar
title_sort routine immediate eye examination at the point of care for diagnosis of aids-related cytomegalovirus retinitis among patients with a cd4 count <100 in myanmar
topic Brief Report
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31304189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz280
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