Active citomegalovirus infection in elderly with frailty´s criteria / Infecção ativa por citomegalovirus em idosos com criterios de fragilidade

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

There is growing interest in understanding the evolution and possible prevention of Frailty, as well as the pathophysiological process of diseases that trigger this syndrome with important functional consequences. Research has shown that chronic latent HCMV in the elderly population is highly prevalent in the frail elderly and is an important trigger of limitations, but few articles are found to seek an association between this syndrome and active infection by HCMV. Objectives: To determine and compare the incidence of HCMV active infection in the elderly presenting Frailty s criteria, using Real-Time PCR for HCMV, and verify the correlation between these criteria of Frailty and positivity HCMV. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study with 55 individuals, followed at the Department of Geriatrics and other outpatient clinics of the Hospital de Clinicas da Unicamp, being used 04 of the 05 Frailty s criteria proposed by Fried and colleagues (2001), we evaluated the presence of active infection through Real-Time PCR and subsequently became the analysis of records of these patients. Results: The number of patients for each criterion of Frailty and the averages of medications were consistent with the literature. Frailty s criteria relating to the number of medications and number of illness for patients, we observed a positive association between these factors. The number of medications in use were females prevalence, and the four main categories of diseases classified by ICD-10, presented by the patients included in the study were: cardiovascular diseases (76.47%), endocrine disorders (47, 05%), diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (45.09%) and metabolic diseases (33.33%). The amplification reaction in real time from 55 samples for detection of HCMV was negative in all samples, characterizing the absence of HCMV activity in this population. Conclusion: Even with significant association between latent cytomegalovirus infection and Frailty syndrome, in this study was not possible to verify the presence of HCMV active infection and its relation to the criteria of Frailty studied, we find necessary to carry out further studies to elucidate the possible association between active infection by HCMV and Frailty criteria

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citomegalovirus interleukins pcr citomegalovirus interleucinas reação em cadeia de polimerase

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