Análise da prevalência das displasias cervicais e da infecção pelo papilomavírus humano em mulheres com lúpus eritematoso sistêmico

• Autor(a) principal: Klumb, Evandro Mendes
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/8543
• topic: Systemic lupus erythematosus; HPV; Cervical cancer; Cervical dysplasia; Cytopathology; Immunosuppression; Lúpus eritematoso sistêmico; HPV; Câncer cervical; Displasia cervical; Citopatologia; Imunossupressão; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that is an autoimmune disease with higher prevalence among women, causes potencially severe lesions in different organs. SLE treatment commonly includes the use of steroids and cytostatic agents, being the latter partially responsable for an increased frequency of infection and neoplasia mostly hematologycal and virus-associated cancer. Studies that included women with SLE, have detected higher frequencies of cervical dysplasia, mainly the pre-malignant ones, however few were able to analyse its association with immunosuppressors. Taking into consideration that HPV infection is the most frequent sexually transmitted disease and that this virus is the etiologycal agent of cervical cancer, the second most prevalent neoplasia among women, this study was designed to detect the frequency of HPV infection and cervical dysplasia in SLE patients and to establish its association with classical risk factors and the use of immunosuppressors. We selected 177 SLE patients and 244 women without SLE and who did not present any complain or known gynecological disease who attended to the HUPE-UERJ or Policlínica Piquet Carneiro-UERJ gynecology clinics (control group). All women were previously explained the study and signed an informed consent approved by the HUPE-UERJ Ethical Committee. HPV detection and genotyping were performed by proteinase chain reaction and cytopatology by Papanicolaou technique with analysis by two pathologists. Patients with SLE presented higher frequency of HPV infection and cervical dysplasia than control group (Chi square, P<0.05), despite they presented less frequently the classical HPV associated risk factors (p<0.05). Long-term use of immunosuppressors determined among LSE patients, a three-fold increase on HPV prevalence (28.2%). Also among SLE patients, those who presented HPV, have received higher cumulative doses of cyclophosphamide and prednisone and also had a higher dose-time ratio of azathioprine. Multivariate analysis that included all patients and controls, detected that history of 3 or more life-time sexual partners and the diagnosis of SLE, determined an increase of 2 and 6 times respectively on HPV prevalence. These same variables also determined an increase of 3 and 6 times respectively, on the prevalence of cervical dysplasya. The findings of the present study confirm that SLE patients have higher frequency of HPV infection and cervical dysplasia, mostly the pre-malignant and that it is even more significant for those who received immunosuppressors for long periods.