Mortality Associated With Mode of Presentation in the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

摘要: A population-based survival study was done for all cases of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome diagnosed in city San Francisco through May 1983. Follow-up obtained 165 173 cases. Median among 75 patients presenting with Kaposis sarcoma (KS) alone 21 months. 90 opportunistic infections primarily Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia 9 months; at months zero. Survival both KS and not statistically different from only. When were divided into those before after 1982 there no significant improvement diagnosis more recently cohort. (authors)