Revue: | Revista de saude publica |
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Número de sistema: | 000535799 |
ISSN: | 0034-8910 |
Autores: | Araújo, Leonardo José Tadeu de1 Gonzalez, Lorenzo Lang1 Buss, Lewis Fletcher2 Guerra, Juliana Mariotti1 Gomez, David Salas1 Ferreira, Camila Santos da Silva1 Cirqueira, Cinthya Santos1 Ghillardi, Fábio2 Witkin, Steven S.2 Sabino, Ester Cerdeira2 |
Instituciones: | 1Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Centro de Patologia, São Paulo, São Paulo. Brasil 2Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, São Paulo, São Paulo. Brasil 3Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York, NY. Estados Unidos |
Año: | 2021 |
Volumen: | 55 |
País: | Brasil |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Resumen en inglés | OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of post mortem laboratory analysis in identifying the causes of hemorrhagic fever and/or neuroinvasive disease in deaths by arbovirus infection. METHODS Retrospective cross-sectional study based on the differential analysis and final outcome obtained in patients whose samples underwent laboratory testing for arboviruses at the Pathology Center of the Adolfo Lutz Institute, in São Paulo, Brazil. RESULTS Of the 1355 adults clinically diagnosed with hemorrhagic fever and/or neuroinvasive disease, the most commonly attributed cause of death and the most common final outcome was dengue fever. Almost half of the samples tested negative on all laboratory tests conducted. CONCLUSION The failure to identify the causative agent in a great number of cases highlights a gap in the diagnosis of deaths of unknown etiology. Additional immunohistochemical and molecular assessments need to be added to the post-mortem protocol if all laboratory evaluations performed fail to identify a causative agent. While part of our findings may be due to technical issues related to sample fixation, better information availability when making the initial diagnosis is crucial. Including molecular approaches might lead to a significant advancement in diagnostic accuracy. |
Keyword: | Autopsy. Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral, Etiology. Arbovirus Infections, Mortality |
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