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This project aims to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of hospitalized patients with HIV/AIDS who present Progressive Disseminated Histoplasmosis, by detecting urinary histoplasma antigen, and to identify the factors associated with this clinical form. The information obtained will be key to improving early diagnosis and adequate management of a disease with high mortality, often underdiagnosed. The study will also allow to differentiate it from tuberculosis and collect clinical and epidemiological data. The objective is to determine the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Progressive Disseminated Histoplasmosis in patients with HIV/AIDS at the Regional Hospital of Loreto, between 2022 and 2024. The study is observational, analytical, prospective cohort, using a census sample of hospitalized patients. SPSS version 25 will be used for statistical analys...

Pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) is a disease that complicates pregnancy progressively and cunninggly, frequently carrying grave maternal and perinatal consequences. We now know PIH consists in a biochemical and histological endothelial disease, with predominance of contractile over relaxing substances and lability to vasopressor substances, as well as increment in mitogenic activity and abnormalities of clothing mechanisms. There is also decrease of plasma volume in direct relation with hypertension, decrease of erythrocyte deformability, and defective placentation, all showing immunologic and genetic features that would start with pregnancy. There is no premonitory analysis, but laboratory data can suggest severity of the disease. We should consider a diastolic blood pressure of 80 mm Hg as hypertension. Mother can help watch babys growth and activity in her uterus. Ultrasound exam...