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- Early Treatment For HIV Can Boost Survival Significantly. Parham, Marti // Jet;11/17/2008, Vol. 114 Issue 19, p48
The article discusses a research study by the University of Washington that found a link between early treatment of HIV and an increased survival rate. The author states that HIV patients who did not receive treatment soon after they were diagnosed were 70% more likely to die than those who...
- Increase in HIV patients who receive triple therapy. // Medical Marketing & Media;Oct97, Vol. 32 Issue 10, p28
Reports on the increase in HIV patients receiving aggressive, triple combination therapy, according to the IMS America's HIV/AIDS database in line with the released federal guidelines.
- Resource utilization and stage of illness: A study of an outpatient AIDS clinic. Bavry, Anthony; Mauldin, Patrick D. // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;Oct96, Vol. 10 Issue 5, p288
Studies the financial and sociodemographic data of AIDS patients in Atlanta, Georgia. Total cost of care per year; Absence of relation of African-American race and IV drug users to outpatient costs; Males and Medicaid patients as positive predictors of inpatient services; Number of inpatients...
- Psychosocial correlates of quality of life in patients with HIV infection. Grassi, Luigi; Sighinolfi, Laura // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;Oct96, Vol. 10 Issue 5, p296
Studies the relationship between psychosocial variables and quality of life in HIV infected patients at Saint Anna Hospital, Ferrara, Italy. Use of the Hospital Anxiety Depression scale; Negative effect of psychological distress on quality of life.
- HIV/AIDS case histories: Diagnostic problems. Godwin, Janice H.; Godwin, Thomas A. // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;Feb1997, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p34
Presents the clinical history of a 28-year-old male with AIDS who died three days after hospitalization in the United States. Diagnosis on the cause of death.
- Neurospora sitophila pulmonary infection in a patient with AIDS. Hood, Stephen V.; Moore, Caroline B. // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;Aug97, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p223
Provides a case study of a 48-year-old HIV-infected man with the Neurospora sitophila pulmonary. Effects of a decline in CD4 cell count, on his condition; Other complications that were developed by the patient; Information on tests that were conducted.
- HIV/AIDS case histories: Diagnostic problems. Snyder, Linda S.; Stopeck, Alison T. // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;Aug97, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p285
Presents a case study of a 30-year-old Hispanic male with Human Indeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. Details on the symptoms of the disease; Treatment procedures for the patient. INSET: Diagnosis: Pulmonary coccidioidomycosis..
- TB PROPHYLAXIS NOT NEEDED IN ANERGIC PATIENTS. // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;Jan1998, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p67
States that anergic patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection do not need TB prophylaxis. Reference to an article New England Journal of Medicine; Indication that there is not significant difference in the development of TB prophylaxis; Findings from the study.
- Waiting with Lymphadenopathy. Helquist, Michael // Advocate;9/30/86, Issue 456, p23
Reports on the study of a group of Lymphadenopathy Syndrome (LNS) patients at the San Francisco General Hospital in California. Background on the LNS; Percentage of LNS patients who progressed on to an AIDS diagnosis; Physical symptoms developed by patients who did not progress to AIDS.
