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Objective. determine the Clinical and Laboratory Correlation co-infected patients Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and crypto-coccal meningitis in patients admitted to the Hospital Viedma in Cochabamba, Bolivia during the period September 2 005 to July 2 014. Material and methods: a retrospective descriptive study of patients hospitalized with HIV-AIDS in the Hospital Viedma who studied with cryptococcal infection in the period between 2005 to 2014 approach to the analysis of the study was quantitative was performed. Results: 83% of patients with cryptococcal meningitis were enrolled with severe immunosuppression with CD4 counts below 100 mm3. The alteration of consciousness present in 50% of patients, headache in 23%, meningeal signs by 20%. The review cyto chemical cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) emphasizes the low cellularity only 40% of the total. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Gaceta Médica Boliviana is the property of Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Facultad de Medicina and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Primary infection by the virus of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is symptomatic in about 70% of cases but in most of them, the diagnosis goes unnoticed because of its nonspecific symptoms, the set of clinical manifestations is known as acute retroviral síndrome. When the disease is diagnosed sub potentially contagious in the latent period or AIDS diagnosed in stage. The clinical case is a male of 31 years old, entered the Hospital Viedma on march 19, 2014, with unquantified thermal spikes, maculopapular lesions scattered predominantly in the chest, not painful, itchy runny nose plus upper limbs, with asthenia, anorexia and progressive odynophagia. The patient had a history of dengue illness a month ago. Serology was performed with positive HIV ELISA and Western Blot indeterminate. Viral load is requested with extremely high values confirming HIV primary infection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]