Urinary Symptoms Associated with Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type I Infection: Evidence of Urinary Manifestations in Large Group of HTLV-I Carriers

Castro, Néviton; Rodrigues, Waldyr; Meira-Freitas, Daniel; Muniz, André Luiz; Oliveira, Paulo; Carvalho, Edgar M.

doi:10.1016/j.urology.2007.01.052

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“…11 Other clinical features include lumbar pain, detrusor instability, and minor sensory changes, especially paraesthesias and loss of vibration sense. 12 In our study, the patients singly infected with HTLV showed a disease progression and clinical signs and symptoms in keeping with this classic description.…”

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Comparison of HTLV-associated myelopathy (HAM) in HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients at a tertiary South African hospital

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Comparison of HTLV-associated myelopathy (HAM) in HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients at a tertiary South African hospital

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“…About 13.9% of HTLV-1 carriers were found to have bad or very bad quality of life (15). These findings led to the conclusion that HTLV-1 infection, even in absence of HAM/TSP as long as urinary symptoms are present, negatively affects quality of life in affected individuals.…”

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Association between urinary symptoms and quality of life in HTLV-1 infected subjects without myelopathy

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Objective: To investigate the relationship between urinary symptoms and quality of life of patients infected with HTLV-1. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that enrolled individuals with HTLV-1 positive serology from February 2010 to March 2011. Participants were HTLV-1 infected subjects followed in the HTLV-1 clinic of the University Hospital in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Patients with HTLV-1 associated myelopathy / tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP), who had evidence of other neurological diseases, diabetes mellitus or were pregnant were excluded from the study. The questionnaire SF-36 was used to evaluate quality of life and the questionnaire OAB-V8 was used to evaluate urinary symptoms. Results: From the 118 individuals evaluated, 50 (42.4%) complained of urinary symptoms and 68 (57.6%) did not. Most participants were females. There was no difference between the groups regarding demographic variables. The group with symptoms showed significantly lower scores in all domains of the SF-36 questionnaire. The domains with greatest differences were vitality and general health state. Conclusions: Urinary symptoms negatively influence the quality of life of individuals infected with HTLV-1.Association between urinary symptoms and quality of life in hTLV-1 infected subjects without myelopathy _______________________________________________

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“…[10][11][12]38 Because we did not perform evaluations for urinary tract infections (UTI), it is conceivable that unrecognized UTI could account for our findings. However, a recent cross-sectional study of 157 HTLV-I-infected individuals found Table 2 Crude and adjusted ORs and 95% CIs of neurologic signs and symptoms in HTLV-I-and HTLV-II-infected participants compared with HTLV-seronegative participants, visits 1-7* *Odds ratios (ORs) were derived from generalized estimating equations for repeated measures, and those in boldface type were significant at p Ͻ 0.05.…”

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Neurologic abnormalities in HTLV-I– and HTLV-II–infected individuals without overt myelopathy

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Urinary Symptoms Associated with Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type I Infection: Evidence of Urinary Manifestations in Large Group of HTLV-I Carriers

Cited by 56 publications

References 21 publications

Comparison of HTLV-associated myelopathy (HAM) in HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients at a tertiary South African hospital

Comparison of HTLV-associated myelopathy (HAM) in HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients at a tertiary South African hospital

Association between urinary symptoms and quality of life in HTLV-1 infected subjects without myelopathy

Neurologic abnormalities in HTLV-I– and HTLV-II–infected individuals without overt myelopathy

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