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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Clinical, Radiological and Functional Characteristics of Pulmonary Diseases among HTLV-1 Infected Patients without Prior Active Tuberculosis Infection.

Rodrigo Cachay, Marcela Gil-Zacarias, Takashi Watanabe-Tejada, Alvaro Schwalb, Fernando Mejía, Oscar Gayoso, Eduardo Gotuzzo

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Article in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. HTLV-1-associated diseases: a systematic review.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2026
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  4. Virus infection induced pulmonary fibrosis.Journal of translational medicine · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rodrigo CachayInstituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru.ORCID 0000-0003-0321-4277
Marcela Gil-ZacariasInstituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru.
Takashi Watanabe-TejadaInstituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru.
Alvaro SchwalbInstituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru.ORCID 0000-0002-6518-9719
Fernando MejíaInstituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru.
Oscar GayosoInstituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru.
Eduardo GotuzzoInstituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru.ORCID 0000-0003-1747-4352
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia · PE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lifelong infection with the human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has been associated with a variety of clinical manifestations; one of the less-explored is HTLV-1-associated pulmonary disease. Imaging of lung damage caused by the HTLV-1 hyperinflammatory cascade can be similar to sequelae from TB infection. Our study aims to describe the pulmonary lesions of HTLV-1-positive patients without past or current active TB and evaluate pulmonary function. We found that nine out of fourteen patients with no known TB disease history presented bronchiectasis, mainly found bilaterally while five presented pulmonary fibrosis. A normal pattern was found in most patients with a pulmonary functional test. Furthermore, there was no association between the PVL and the chest-CT scan findings, nor with spirometry results. However, the sample size was insufficient to conclude it.

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epidemiologyHTLV-1pulmonary diseasepulmonary function

Identifiers

PMID34358045
PMCPMC8308839
OpenAlexW3180689328

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