%0 Journal Article
%T Bone marrow cytomorphological changes in patients co-infected with visceral leishmaniasis and human immunodeficiency virus
%A Castro
%A Alana Jocelina Montenegro de
%A Gon£żalves
%A Romelia Pinheiro
%A Pitombeira
%A Maria Helena da Silva
%J Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia
%D 2011
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia
%R 10.5581/1516-8484.20110129
%X visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is a severe systemic infectious disease.(1) it has been recognized as an opportunistic disease in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv).(2,3) the analysis of the bone marrow of patients co-infected with vl and hiv showed dysplasia of erythroid, granulocytic and megakaryocytic lineages (figure 1), besides the presence of plasmacytosis, cytoplasmic bodies, hemophagocytosis, granuloma and intracellular and extracellular leishmania amastigotes (figure 2). these findings are found in the analysis of bone marrow of patients co-infected with hiv and vl; knowledge of these findings may be useful for the diagnosis and prognosis of patients.
%K hiv infections
%K bone marrow examination
%K leishmaniasis
%K visceral
%K aids-related opportunistic infections.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1516-84842011000600022&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en