Title
Clinical, radiological and functional characteristics of pulmonary diseases among htlv-1 infected patients without prior active tuberculosis infection
Date Issued
01 July 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Cachay R.
Gil-Zacarias M.
Watanabe-Tejada T.
Schwalb A.
Gayoso O.
Gotuzzo E.
Publisher(s)
MDPI AG
Abstract
The lifelong infection with the human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has been associated with a variety of clinical manifestations; one of the less-explored is HTLV-1-associated pulmonary disease. Imaging of lung damage caused by the HTLV-1 hyperinflammatory cascade can be similar to sequelae from TB infection. Our study aims to describe the pulmonary lesions of HTLV-1-positive patients without past or current active TB and evaluate pulmonary function. We found that nine out of fourteen patients with no known TB disease history presented bronchiectasis, mainly found bilaterally while five presented pulmonary fibrosis. A normal pattern was found in most patients with a pulmonary functional test. Furthermore, there was no association between the PVL and the chest-CT scan findings, nor with spirometry results. However, the sample size was insufficient to conclude it.
Volume
10
Issue
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Radiología, Medicina nuclear, Imágenes médicas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85111076973
Source
Pathogens
ISSN of the container
20760817
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to acknowledge the tremendous effort of the IMTAvH HTLV-1 Clinical Cohort to provide care to the patients and facilitate their follow-up. The authors would like to dedicate this manuscript to Yessica Ramos, who played a vital role in this and other research studies of the IMTAvH HTLV-1 Clinical Cohort. The authors would also like to thank the extraordinary support of Alberto Hurtado School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia for the publication of this manuscript.
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