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Abstract: BACKGROUND: Gender differences in HIV RNA and CD4 levels at the time of HIV seroconversion have been described yet time to AIDS is thought to be similar and the relationship between CD4 cell counts, viral replication and clinical immune deficiency is poorly understood. To address this, we examined gender differences in ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: Occurrence of AIDS-defining illness and death, and longitudinal changes in HIV-1 RNA and CD4+ cell counts following initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among different racial groups have not been well described. METHODS: In 937 HIV-infected participants initiating HAART in the Women s ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: The hemoglobin (Hg) level was consistently found to be associated with advanced HIV disease (both AIDS-defining illness and mortality) in multiple studies prior to the use of HAART, and in several studies in patients receiving HAART. We sought to determine its significance as a prognostic factor compared to ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: Several previous studies suggest that HIV-infected persons over 50 may respond less well to HAART due to poorer immune response and other factors. We sought to compare response to HAART in patients =50 vs ...
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Abstract: <i>Penicillium marneffei</i>, a common mycosis among AIDS patients living in southeast Asia, is suggested as a new AIDS-defining illness. Penicilliosis was rare in the past. Its occurrence has increased with rise in AIDS cases in endemic and non-endemic areas like India. ...
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Abstract: <p><b>BACKGROUND:</b> The porpouse of this study was to analyze the number and cause of death in a group of patients before and after HAART. </p> <p><b>METHODS:</b> Deaths 1994-2001 were recorded. Data regarding the epidemiological characteristics, CD4+ cell count and treatment were obtained. Causes of death were cl ...
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Abstract: <p><b>BACKGROUND:</b> The Δ32 deletion has been found to delay progression to immunodeficiency in HIV-infected patients. Here we examined whether the deletion confers a specific protection against toxoplasmosis occurrence. </p> <p><b>METHODS:</b> 1489 Caucasian HIV-infected subjects from the French HEMOCO (haemophil ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of pregnancy on maternal acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among tribal women in India . STUDY DESIGN: From February 1992 to February 1996, 71 tribal women from Manipur, India, with AIDS (Centers for Disease Control stage iii/iv), matched for a ...
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Abstract: Aim: To assess the impact of pregnancy on maternal AIDS among tribal women from India . Design: At Government hospital in Manipur, 71 women with AIDS (CDC III/IV) were identified and prospectively studied from December 1992 to January 1996. Of these 71, 32 were pregnant (Group A) and ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the importance of cervical cancer in the spectrum of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related diseases at a single high-risk institution and to compare disease characteristics in HIV-infected women with cervical cancer and those with other AIDS-related malignancies. METHODS: We retrospectively ...
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Abstract: Objectives: To describe the epidemiology of coccidioidomycosis in AIDS patients in California. Methods: We reviewed AIDS cases reported to the California Department of Health Services from 1987 to August 31, 1995. We compared patients with and without coccidioidomyco ...
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Abstract: Objective: To identify and compare the psychological profiles and quality of life of individuals presenting with their first AIDS defining illness concurrent with their first positive HIV test Group 1), with those having previous knowledge of their HIV-positive status (Group 2). Reasons for late presentation with HIV ...
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Abstract: To describe the epidemiology of coccidioidomycosis in AIDS patients in California. <p><b>METHODS</b>: We reviewed AIDS cases reported to the California Department of Health Services from 1987 to August 31, 1995. We compared patients with and without coccidioidomycosis as an AIDS-defining illness by age, sex, race and ...
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Abstract: To assess the impact of pregnancy on maternal AIDS among tribal women from India . Design: At Government hospital in Manipur, 71 women with AIDS (CDC III/IV) were identified and prospectively studied from December 1992 to January 1996. Of these 71, 32 were pregnant (Group A) and 39 non-pregnant (Group B). Both gro ...
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Abstract: Two small studies have reported that no patients survived after 2 weeks in an intensive care unit (ICU) for PCP , suggesting that ICU care should be withdrawn after 2 weeks. The goal of this study is to examine the association between length of stay in an ICU and survival to hospital discharge for patients ...
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Abstract: To identify and compare the psychological profiles and quality of life of individuals presenting with their first AIDS defining illness concurrent with their first positive HIV test (Group 1), with those having previous knowledge of their HIV-positive status (Group 2). Reasons for late presentation with HIV ...
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Abstract: Kaposi s sarcoma (KS) is a frequent sequela of HIV infection in homosexual men. We reviewed the autopsy experience of the MACS to determine if subclassification of KS would be clinically beneficial. From the inception of the MACS in 1984 until December 1992, there were 920 deaths. 124 autopsy reports (14%) were availa ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVES--To study the presentation and survival of patients who present with their first diagnosis of being HIV positive at the same time as their AIDS defining illness. DESIGN--Retrospective study of patients presenting with AIDS between 1991 and 1993. SETTING--Department of genitourinary medicine, St Mary s Hospi ...
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Abstract: AIMS: The primary aim of this study was to explore patients experience and perceptions of helpful and unhelpful nursing interventions during hospitalisation with their AIDS-defining illness. The secondary aim was to develop understanding of the human experience of being diagnosed with AIDS. METHODOLOGY: Eight men rec ...
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Abstract: The aim of this phenomenologically informed study was to explore the experience of being hospitalised with an AIDS-defining illness. Eight men recently hospitalised with an AIDS-defining illness were asked at interview to describe the meaning of AIDS for them and the nursing interventions they experienced as helpful a ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To examine the role of initial AIDS-defining illness and trends over time in survival following AIDS. METHODS: Survival was calculated for all adult and adolescent AIDS cases (N = 3204) in Australia diagnosed through 1 November 1991 and reported to the National AIDS R ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To examine the role of initial AIDS-defining illness in survival following AIDS and survival trends over time. DESIGN: States and Territory Health Departments notified new diagnoses of AIDS to the National AIDS Registry. Information on vital status and date of last medical contact was sought annually. METHO ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To describe changes in cognitive functioning before and after development of an acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining illness or CD4+ lymphocyte count ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Between January 1991 and December 1992, 61/281 (22%) of the patients presenting with their first AIDS defining illness to the Genito-Urinary Medicine Dept. at St Mary s Hospital in London had not previously been diagnosed as being HIV-1 positive. This study sought to determine whether late presenters with H ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To evaluate risk factors which may significantly influence survival following AIDS diagnosis. METHODS: The survival of all adult and adolescent AIDS cases in Australia diagnosed by 2 November 1991 and reported to the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical re ...
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Abstract: <p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>: Between January 1991 and December 1992, 61/281 (22%) of the patients presenting with their first AIDS defining illness to the Genito-Urinary Medicine Dept. at St Mary s Hospital in London had not previously been diagnosed as being HIV-1 positive. This study sought to determine whether late presen ...
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Abstract: To evaluate risk factors which may significantly influence survival following AIDS diagnosis. The survival of all adult and adolescent AIDS cases in Australia diagnosed by 2 November 1991 and reported to the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical research by the end of June 1993 (N = 3180) ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To determine factors affecting the incidence of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) as an AIDS defining illness in adult cases diagnosed in the UK between January 89 December 92. METHODS: The incidence of PCP was compared in cases whose serostatus was known at least nine months before the diagnosis of AIDS ...
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Abstract: <p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>: To determine factors affecting the incidence of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia ( PCP ) as an AIDS defining illness in adult cases diagnosed in the UK between January 89 December 92. <p><b>METHODS</b>: The incidence of PCP was compared in cases whose serostatus was known at least nine months bef ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To predict the course of HIV-infection already two months on antiretroviral therapy (ddI) by means of surrogate markers. METHODS: There were three groups of patients with same distribution of age, same duration of ddI-therapy, same methods of prophylaxis (pcp-, toxoplasmosis etc.) and other conditions. gro ...
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