Histomorphometric and immunohistochemical analysis of infectious agents, T-cell subpopulations and inflammatory adhesion molecules in placentas from HIV-seropositive pregnant women

Table 5 Correlation between the use of antiretroviral therapy and immunohistochemical, morphometric and viral load data.

KEY: therapy += patients who had antiretroviral therapy for at least 1 month before giving birth; therapy - = patients who only had loading doses or did not undergo antiretroviral therapy; ICAM-1+ = number of cases with immunohistochemical expression of ICAM-1; median CD8+ = median CD8+ T cell count; median area/perimeter = median of area and perimeter in microns of placental villi; median of 3 viral loads = median of the three first viral loads; p = confidence interval of less than 0.05.

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