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Assessment of executive functions as a measure of impairments in everyday functioning in persons with HIV
(Routledge, 2022)Persons with HIV can often present cognitive disorders such as those related to executive functioning, which could affect the daily life activities. The present study was designed to explore the predictive relationship ... -
Bibliometric Studies and Worldwide Research Trends on Global Health
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 08/2020)Global health, conceived as a discipline, aims to train, research and respond to problems of a transboundary nature in order to improve health and health equity at the global level. The current worldwide situation is ruled ... -
Coinfection with Viral Hepatitis in HIV patients in 2023
(AIDS reviews, 2023)According to UNAIDS roughly 1.5 million new HIV infections occur each year worldwide. The number of persons living with HIV (PLWH) is estimated around 38 million globally, of whom 25 million live in Sub-Saharan Africa. -
Hepatitis C hospitalizations in Spain and impact of new curative antiviral therapies
(Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 2022)Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is major cause of decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer. The advent of curative new antiviral therapies since year 2015 has dramatically improved the prognosis of HCV patients. ... -
Hepatitis C Treatment Outcomes in Persons With HIV and Decompensated Cirrhosis Using a Collaborative Multidisciplinary HIV-Centered Approach
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2021)Fifty-four consecutive persons with HIV co-infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and liver decompensation were treated with direct-acting antivirals (DAA). The HCV treatment was delivered using a multidisciplinary ... -
Hepatitis delta in patients hospitalized in Spain (1997-2018)
(NLM (Medline), 2021)BACKGROUND: Hepatitis delta is the most aggressive form of chronic viral hepatitis. We examined the clinical burden, epidemiological features and time trends for hepatitis delta patients hospitalized in Spain during the ... -
Hepatitis delta in patients with resolved hepatitis B virus infection
(European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 09/2018)Background The hepatitis delta virus (HDV) causes the most aggressive form of chronic viral hepatitis. As HDV replication requires hepatitis B virus (HBV), HDV screening is limited to HBsAg+ carriers. To date, individuals ... -
HIV co-infection in HTLV-1 carriers in Spain
(Virus Research, 06/2019)Background: Human retroviruses HIV and HTLV share transmission routes. HIV widely spread in Spain during the 80 s through injection drug use and sex, and nowadays HIV rates in Spain account for one of the largest in Europe. ... -
Impact of potent nucleos(t)ide therapy on hepatitis B hospitalisations in Spain
(Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2023)Background: Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major cause of decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer worldwide. Newborn HBV vaccination was implemented in Spain two decades ago, and potent oral antivirals ... -
Influence of Lymphocyte T CD4 Levels on the Neuropsychological Performance of Population Affected by HIV and with a Previous History of Substance Use
(International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 09/2017)The immunological markers help to know if there is a good recovery of the immunological system in patients infected with HIV. Among them, the lymphocyte T CD4 rate is the main indicator of the patient's immunological state ... -
Influence of Lymphocyte T CD4 Levels on the Neuropsychological Performance of Population Affected by HIV and with a Previous History of Substance Use
(International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), 09/2017)The immunological markers help to know if there is a good recovery of the immunological system in patients infected with HIV. Among them, the lymphocyte T CD4 rate is the main indicator of the patient’s immunological state ... -
News from CROI 2022 – caveats using antiretrovirals as HIV prophylaxis
(AIDS Reviews, 2022)The annual conference on retroviruses and opportunistic infections was held in Denver, CO, last February. Most sessions were attended by virtual attenders, due to restrictions forced by the COVID-19 surge caused by the ... -
Objective memory as an indicator of functional impairment in native Spanish-speaking patients with HIV infection
(AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 02/12/2019)Objective memory is one of the most affected cognitive areas in patients with HIV and perhaps one of the best predictors of daily functioning problems. Its relationship with biological markers, mood symptoms, and cognitive ... -
Occult hepatitis B and HIV infection
(European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 11/2019)Introduction Occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, so-called occult B infection (OBI), is defined by the recognition of HBV-DNA in the absence of serum hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). The HBV-DNA genome in OBI is ... -
Overt and occult hepatitis B among immigrants and native blood donors in Madrid, Spain
(Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 12/2020)Background: The risk of transfusion-transmitted viral infections is very low in developed countries. Recent massive migration flows from highly hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and/or HIV endemic regions ... -
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for viral infections other than HIV
(Infezioni in Medicina, 2022)The battle against human viral infections has histori-cally relied on two medical strategies, namely vaccines to protect from contagion and antivirals to treat infected patients. In the absence of vaccines, antivirals have ... -
Predictors of Hepatitis C Treatment Failure After Using Direct-Acting Antivirals in People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus
(Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 03/2019)Background. Little is known about the influence of ongoing barriers to care in the persistence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) viremia after treatment with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) among people living with human ... -
Rebound in Sexually Transmitted Infections Following the Success of Antiretrovirals for HIV/AIDS
(AIDS Reviews, 10/2018)Nearly 1 million people become infected every day with any of the four major curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs), namely trichomoniasis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. Despite huge global incidence, STIs ... -
Safety considerations in the management of hepatitis C and HIV co-infection
(Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, 2023)Introduction: Both HCV and HIV are highly prevalent infections with current estimates of 57 and 38 million people infected worldwide, respectively. Oral antivirals can be curative for HCV and rescue HIV patients from disease ...
