Survival of HIV-Infected ICU Patients Continues to Improve

Sixty-nine percent of HIV-infected patients admitted to an ICU from 2000 through 2004 were discharged alive.

Combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) has significantly improved the prognosis of HIV-infected patients. To investigate whether ICU admission diagnoses and survival have changed in the current ART era, researchers performed a retrospective cohort study of all HIV-infected adults admitted to the ICU at San Francisco General Hospital from 2000 through 2004.

Of 281 HIV-infected patients in 311 ICU admission episodes, 33% were on ART. ART users were significantly more likely than ART nonusers to have a history of HIV-associated opportunistic infection or malignancy. ART users had a significantly higher median CD4 count (141 vs. 95 cells/mm³) and a significantly lower mean viral load (3.71 vs. 4.81 log copies/mL). Overall, 21% of patients pres…

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Thomas Glück, MD

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Thomas Glück, MD

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Survival of HIV-Infected ICU Patients Continues to Improve

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