Prevalencia de la candidiasis oral en pacientes VIH positivos atendidos en el área de Infectología del Hospital de Especialidades Teodoro Maldonado Carbo entre enero del 2019 a diciembre del 2021.

Abstract

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus can generate serious health complications due to the relationship with opportunistic diseases that do not favor the therapeutic process of HIV positive patients. HIV weakens the immune system causing the destruction of white blood cells leading to infections. Opportunistic diseases occur less frequently in healthy people, and patients with HIV have a higher frequency of diseases such as tuberculosis, candidiasis, syphilis, cerebral toxoplasmosis, among others. For this reason, it is important to study factors that may impair the treatment of patients. The present study consisted of determining the prevalence of oral candidiasis in HIV-positive patients treated in the Infectious Diseases area of the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital. A simple random sampling of the patient population was performed, and information was extracted from the AS400 database of the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital considering the ICD 10 of HIV-positive patients, registering opportunistic diseases such as candidiasis, syphilis, among others. The results indicate that HIV-positive men are more frequent than women, and the latter was less frequent in mortality than men. It is concluded that oral candidiasis and sífilis are more frequent in HIV patients. Viral load and mortality are related to opportunistic diseases in patients.