Incidencia de lesões cervicais subsequentes em mulheres com citologia de rastreamento normal segundo a detecção do papilomavirus humano

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

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Introduction: Women with normal baseline cytology and non-infected by Human papillomavirus (HPV) have, in theory, no risk to develop a high-grade cervical intraepithelial lesion or cancer. However, many women with normal cytology and with morphologically normal uterine cervix are HPV infected, and, the clinical significance of this infection regarding to the risk of devoloping cytological or histological abnormalities in the future are not totally clear yet. Purpose: To investigate the incidence of cytological and histological cervical lesions in a 24 months follow-up, according to HPV detection among women with baseline normal cytology result, in a subgroup of women included in the Latin American Screening study (LAMS). Study design: A group of 365 women with normal Pap smear whatever the Hybrid Capture (HC) II test result were followed for 24 months at Campinas e São Paulo (Brazil). They answered a questionnaire regarding sociodemographic and reproductive factors and were submitted to a clinical exam, including Pap smear and HC II. Women with at least one positive result and a 10% random sample of women with both tests negative were referred to colposcopy and followed with cytology and colposcopy in a six-month interval. Women with positive and negative HPV test were compared regarding sociodemographic and reproductive factors using relative risk (RR) and stepwise logistic regression analysis calculated with 95% confidence interval (CI). Also the incidence rate and RR of developing any cytological or histological abnormality during the follow-up were calculated within 95% confidence limits. Colposcopy was considered as the gold standard. When colposcopy result was normal or biopsy result was cervicitis it was considered as negative diagnosis. Women with histologic diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 1 or higher were considered as positive diagnosis. Results: Incidence of low and high-grade cytological lesion was higher in women with positive HPV testing than in women with negative HPV testing after 12 and 24 months of follow-up. In up to 12 months of follow-up, women with baseline positive HPV test had a significantly higher proportion of low-grade (1.4; 95% CI 1.1-1.7) and high -grade (1.5; 95%CI 1.4-1.7) cytological lesion. The RR for high-grade lesion increased to 1.7 (95%CI 1.5-1.9) for those followed-up in up to 24 months. For histological outcomes, the incidence of CIN 1, 2 or 3 was also higher in women with positive HPV testing than in women with negative HPV testing after 12 and 24 months of follow-up. Women with positive HPV test had a higher RR of CIN 2 and 3 (1.5; 95%CI 1.4-1.6) during the follow-up in up to 12 months and the RR increased to 1.7 (95%CI 1.5-1.9) for those followed-up in up to 24 months. Conclusions: HPV test is useful in addition to cytology to select from women with normal cytology those who are at highest risk for underlying cervical lesion

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cervix uteri - cancer seguimentos cervical intraepithelial neoplasia virus do papiloma citologia neoplasia intra-epitelial cervical cytology follow-up studies colo uterino - cancer human papillomavirus

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