LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Memory impairment: an intermediate clinical syndrome symptom in HTLV-1-infected patients?

Gascon, Maria Rita; Haziot, Michel E; Assone, Tatiane; Fonseca, Luiz Augusto M; Smid, Jerusa; Oliveira, Augusto César Penalva de; Casseb, Jorge.

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 77 (6), 2019

Background Although classical human T-cell lymphocyte virus type 1 (HTLV-1)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis syndrome is the most frequent HTLV-1-associated neurological disorder, some "minor" neurological disorders can be seen in "asymptomatic" carriers. These disorders, including cog...

Análisis de Varianza, Estudios de Casos y Controles, Disfunción Cognitiva/fisiopatología, Disfunción Cognitiva/virología, Estudios Transversales, Escolaridad, Infecciones por HTLV-I/fisiopatología, Infecciones por HTLV-I/psicología, Trastornos de la Memoria/fisiopatología, Trastornos de la Memoria/virología, Pruebas Neuropsicológicas, Valores de Referencia, Estadísticas no Paramétricas, Encuestas y Cuestionarios

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Prevalence of bowel symptoms in patients infected with human T-lymphotropic type 1 virus

Abstract INTRODUCTION: Bowel dysfunction is frequent in patients with spinal cord diseases, but little is known about the prevalence of bowel symptoms in human T-lymphotropic virus-(HTLV-1) infected individuals. The purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of bowel symptoms in HTLV-1 infected...