Análisis de 100 tuberculosis consecutivas en pacientes infectados por VIH en un hospital de Cantabria.

In our setting, patients infected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) show a high rate of tuberculosis infections which manifestations depend on the level of immunodeficiency reached. METHOD: Clinical, radiological and evolutive characteristics are discussed of 100 diagnosed tuberculosis in seropositive patients during a time span of 52 months, relating them to the number of CD4 detected. RESULTS: Tuberculosis pulmonary forms (65%) were more frequent than extra-pulmonary ones (35%) even in the advanced phases of the disease due to HIV, even tough the latter tend to cluster in patients with less than 200 CD1/mm. An unspecific febrile syndrome, normal results on simple radiological exploration and the difficulty to obtain diagnostic samples are facts which often delay the diagnosis. CONCLUSION: Even tough the extra-pulmonary forms are more frequent in the last stages of the disease due to HIV, in our setting there is still a high incidence of pulmonary forms in all stages.