2019
DOI: 10.1590/1677-5449.190015
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Linfedema secundário de membros e febre chicungunha

Abstract: Resumo Algumas infecções virais sistêmicas podem estar relacionadas ao desenvolvimento de complicações vasculares, como trombose venosa profunda e linfedema de membros inferiores e superiores. Essa relação já está bem estabelecida em pacientes portadores do vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV), hepatite C ou influenza. Recentemente introduzido no continente americano (2013), o vírus chicungunha, um arbovírus transmitido pelo mosquito do gênero Aedes e agente etiológico da febre chicungunha (FC), ainda não te… Show more

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“…Thank you very much for your comment and for the timely and pertinent correction of the facts. Undoubtedly lymphedema had already been described by several Indian and Pakistani authors 1 - 5 , some cited in the letter to the editor, because it is an endemic infection in this region of the planet. However, in my article I draw attention to the Chikungunya epidemic in the South American continent, and particularly in Brazil, in the years 2015 and 2016, which drew the attention of many doctors, because until then it was an infection unknown to most professionals of health in Brazil.…”
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“…Thank you very much for your comment and for the timely and pertinent correction of the facts. Undoubtedly lymphedema had already been described by several Indian and Pakistani authors 1 - 5 , some cited in the letter to the editor, because it is an endemic infection in this region of the planet. However, in my article I draw attention to the Chikungunya epidemic in the South American continent, and particularly in Brazil, in the years 2015 and 2016, which drew the attention of many doctors, because until then it was an infection unknown to most professionals of health in Brazil.…”
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“…We read the publication on “Secondary lymphedema of limbs and chikungunya fever (CF)” with great interest. 1 Marques et al described “ the case of a patient who developed lymphedema of upper and lower limbs after an episode of CF . 1 ” Marques et al.…”
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“…Essa infecção viral, tem sido relacionada à hipercoagulabilidade e, portanto, ao desenvolvimento de trombose venosa e de embolia pulmonar, devido às alterações inflamatórias no endotélio (4). complicações vasculares agudas e crônicas secundárias a essa arbovirose, que acometeram tanto o sistema venoso, quanto o sistema linfático, com a emergência de casos de linfedema de membros superiores e inferiores (5). Entre 2017 e 2020 foram notificados 644671 casos de Chikungunya no Brasil (6).…”
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