Harrington Bryna, Vorkas Charles Kyriakos, Kanyama Cecilia, Ngoma Jonathan, Hoffman Irving, Hosseinipour Mina C
MD/PhD student, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Trop Doct. 2015 Jul;45(3):164-7. doi: 10.1177/0049475515577024. Epub 2015 Mar 29.
Little is known about diseases associated with altered mental status (AMS) in resource-limited settings. We studied adult medicine patients presenting with AMS in Lilongwe, Malawi and found that AMS and HIV infection were each significantly associated with mortality. It is therefore critical that evaluation and management in this patient population is improved.
在资源有限的环境中,人们对与精神状态改变(AMS)相关的疾病知之甚少。我们对马拉维利隆圭出现AMS症状的成年内科患者进行了研究,发现AMS和HIV感染均与死亡率显著相关。因此,改善对这一患者群体的评估和管理至关重要。