1. COVID-19 in HIV: a Review of Published Case Reports
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Sandeep Singh, Sudeshna Ghosh, Shriya Doreswamy, Saumil Patel, Rupak Desai, Zoya Morani, Falah Abu Hassan, and Venkata Neelima Kothapudi
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0301 basic medicine ,Mechanical ventilation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,business.industry ,SARS-CoV-2 ,medicine.medical_treatment ,030106 microbiology ,Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ,MEDLINE ,COVID-19 ,HIV ,medicine.disease ,medicine.disease_cause ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Diabetes mellitus ,Internal medicine ,Hyperlipidemia ,Hiv patients ,medicine ,In patient ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business - Abstract
Patients with COVID-19 present with a myriad of comorbidities. An immunocompromised state like HIV in patients with COVID-19 can be life-threatening. We searched PubMed/Medline, Scopus, and Web of Science for case reports and case series about COVID-19 in HIV patients. We finally reviewed 20 case reports including cases of 43 patients with HIV and COVID-19. The mean age of 43 adult patients was 51.56 ± 27.56 years (range 24–76 years). Of these, 30 were male (69.77%), 11 were female (25.58%), and 2 were transgender (4.65%). A total of 25 patients (58.14%) were above 50 years of age. The most common cardiovascular comorbidities were hypertension and hyperlipidemia (48.8%), diabetes (20.93%), and morbid obesity (11.63%). Out of 43 HIV patients with COVID-19, 6 resulted in death (13.95%). All the patients who died were elderly above 50 years and required mechanical ventilation. HIV patients infected with COVID-19 had a high mortality rate. A high burden of pre-existing comorbidities and an advanced age in these patients make them prone to disease progression and worse outcomes.
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- 2020