Natural History of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease in Southern India (original) (raw)

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Y. R. Gaitonde Center for AIDS Research and Education, University of Madras

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Chennai, India

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Y. R. Gaitonde Center for AIDS Research and Education, University of Madras

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Chennai, India

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Miriam Hospital, Brown University

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Y. R. Gaitonde Center for AIDS Research and Education, University of Madras

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Chennai, India

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Department of Microbiology, Dr.ALM Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras

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Chennai, India

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04 December 2001

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01 January 2003

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N. Kumarasamy, Suniti Solomon, Timothy P. Flanigan, R. Hemalatha, S. P. Thyagarajan, Kenneth H. Mayer, Natural History of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease in Southern India, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 36, Issue 1, 1 January 2003, Pages 79–85, https://doi.org/10.1086/344756
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Abstract

There are few reports of the natural history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection from Asia. In a retrospective analysis of 594 patients (72.9% male; baseline CD4 cell count, 216 cells/μL) receiving care at YRG Center for AIDS Research and Education, a tertiary HIV referral center in southern India, the mean duration of survival from serodiagnosis was 92 months. Ninety-three percent of the patients acquired infection through heterosexual contact. The most common acquired immune deficiency syndrome–defining illnesses were pulmonary tuberculosis (49%; median duration of survival, 45 months), Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (6%; median duration of survival, 24 months), cryptococcal meningitis (5%; median duration of survival, 22 months), and central nervous system toxoplasmosis (3%; median duration of survival, 28 months). Persons with a CD4 lymphocyte count of <200 cells/μL were 19 times (95% confidence interval [CI], 5.56–64.77) more likely to die than were those with CD4 cell count of >350 cells/μL. Patients who had ⩾1 opportunistic infection were 2.6 times more likely to die (95% CI, 0.95–7.09) than were those who did not have an opportunistic infection. Antiretroviral therapy for patients with low CD4 lymphocyte counts improved the odds of survival (odds ratio, 5.37; 95% CI, 1.82–15.83).

© 2003 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Topic:

• hiv
• acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
• patient referral
• central nervous system
• cryptococcal meningitis
• pulmonary tuberculosis
• asia
• cd4 count determination procedure
• death
• heterosexuality
• india
• opportunistic infections
• pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii
• toxoplasmosis
• infections
• hiv infections
• anti-retroviral agents

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