Prevalencia de tuberculosis en pacientes con VIH del hospital general Guasmo Sur desde el 01 de enero de 2018 hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2019.

Abstract

Introduction: HIV is one of the main risk factors for patients to develop TB, these lead to a serious deterioration of the immune system that helps the progression of said disease. The prevalence of TB-HIV coinfection represents around 78% of the total HIV-TB cases in the world. Objective: To identify the prevalence of Tuberculosis in patients with the human immunodeficiency virus admitted to the General Hospital Guasmo Sur during the periods 2018 and 2019. Methodology: An observational, descriptive, analytical and retrospective crosssectional study of prevalence was carried out on all patients who were discharged and diagnosed with tuberculosis in the period 2018-2019. Results: Of the 135 patients with TB and HIV positive, 2 (1%) are adolescents of 19 years, 86 (64%) are young people from 20 to 39 years of age, 41 (41%) are adults from 40 to 59 years of age. and 5 (4%) are 60 years old. According to gender, there was a higher prevalence of males with 134 (80%) patients, and females 27 (20%). Tuberculosis of the pulmonary site was the one that predominated with 70% of the cases. Conclusion: It is concluded that the prevalence according to the age of the patients is higher in young people between 20 and 39 years of age in 64%, that the male sex will predominate with 80%, and the most frequent location of tuberculosis in HIVinfected patients is 70% pulmonary.