Prevalence of chronic infectious diseases in clinical autopsies
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Chronic Infectious Diseases are a problem of public health around the world, being a major cause of death. In Guatemala there are not any recent postmortem studies on the topic, thus ignoring its prevalence in clinical autopsies around the country. This study islimited to the following illnesses: tuberculosis, candidiasis, neurocysticercosis, aspergillosis, coccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis. Objectives: to determine the prevalence of Infectious Chronic Diseases in clinical autopsies. Material and Methods: past descriptive research based on protocols of 909 ballots of clinical autopsies from 2006 to 2015 at the Pathology Department in San Juan de Dios General Hospital in Guatemala City. Results: from this research, 32 cases of Chronic Infectious Diseases and the distribution is the following: 20 of Tuberculosis, 7 of Candidiasis, 3 of neurocysticercosis, aspergillosis, coccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis with 1 case each one. Out of these 32 cases, 19 were diagnosed in men and 13 in women, 9 of those between the ages of 0 to10 years of age. The most affected organ in 25 of those cases was the lung.
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