COVID-19 in patients with HIV-1 infection: a single-centre experience in northern Italy

BACKGROUND: Since the end of February 2020, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak rapidly spread throughout Italy and other European countries, but limited information has been available about its characteristics in HIV-infected patients. METHODS: We have described a case series of patien...

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Autores principales: Calza, Leonardo, Bon, Isabella, Tadolini, Marina, Borderi, Marco, Colangeli, Vincenzo, Badia, Lorenzo, Verucchi, Gabriella, Rossini, Giada, Vocale, Caterina, Gaibani, Paolo, Viale, Pierluigi, Attard, Luciano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7397968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32748333
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s15010-020-01492-7
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Since the end of February 2020, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak rapidly spread throughout Italy and other European countries, but limited information has been available about its characteristics in HIV-infected patients. METHODS: We have described a case series of patients with HIV infection and COVID-19 diagnosed at the S.Orsola Hospital (Bologna, Italy) during March and April, 2020. RESULTS: We reported a case series of 26 HIV-infected patients with COVID-19. Nineteen subjects were men, the median age was 54 years, 73% of patients had one or more comorbidities. Only 5 patients with interstitial pneumonia were hospitalized, but there were no admissions to intensive care unit and no deaths. CONCLUSIONS: In our experience, COVID-19 associated with HIV infection had a clinical presentation comparable to the general population and was frequently associated with chronic comorbidities.

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