Abstract

BENITO URDANETA, Mariluz et al. Manifestaciones bucales en pacientes VIH positivos y su relación con valores de  Linfocitos CD4. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2007, vol.45, n.2, pp.229-233. ISSN 0001-6365.

Objective: To identify the oral manifestation in HIV+ patients and to establish the association with the CD4 cells. Material and Method: It have been studied 96 HIV+ patients, attended in the consulting room of the Odontology Service in the Universitary Hospital of Maracaibo. In each patient it was made an oral examination and the CD4 values were taken. Results: The  87.5% were male,  the average age was 33.97± 8.82 years. The oral manifestation were present in the 65.62% of the patients, 60.42%  were under medical treatment. It was observed that the patients with oral manifestations had lower values of CD4 cells than  the ones that didn’t have them;  in adittion when  the number of CD4 cells of the patients with and without oral manifestations under medical  treatment were compared, it was founded that the first ones showed lower values than the second ones (P<0.05). Conclusion: The patients with HIV  with oral manifestations presented lower CD4 values than the HIV patients without oral manifestations independently of the antiretroviral  treatment.

Keywords : HIV; CD4 cells; antiretroviral, oral manifestations.