Книга: Oludayo Olubanwo «The profiles of HIV/AIDS patients with DVT»

Производитель: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing"

Many aspects of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS have been described in detail in the literature. However, there has been very few articles on the phenomenon of Deep Vein Thrombosis DVT in the lower extremities of human immunodeficiency virus HIV/AIDS infected patients. There is reason to believe that the number of patients being admitted with Deep Vein Thrombosis in our hospital recently has increased compared with past records. Many patients have also been admitted with pulmonary embolism some of which were actually diagnosed at autopsy. Of note is that most of these patients admitted either with DVT or thrombosis at other sites are also infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Although some of them have other risk factors for thrombosis like obesity, infections (e. g. Tuberculosis) etc, the relationship between thrombosis and HIV infection has been documented by many researchers. It has been found that HIV infection predisposes to a hypercoagulable state and... ISBN:9783659146398

Издательство: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" (2012)

ISBN: 9783659146398