Respiratory Complications in Iranian Hospitalized Patients with HIV/AIDS

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1 Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS (IRCHA), Imam Khomeini Hospital , Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

2 Department of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran,

3 Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS (IRCHA), Imam Khomeini Hospital , Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

5 CAPS and the Institute for Global Health, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Abstract

Background: The respiratory tract has been the most commonly affected site of illness in HIV-infected patients. The current study was done to identify the frequency of respiratory complications in a consecutive case series of HIV-positive patients in Iran. Materials and Methods: This study was a retrospective analysis at the national academic reference medical center of ImamKhomeini Hospital, in Tehran, Iran. The study included 199 new admissions for 177 HIV-infected patients between 2000 and 2005. Demographic characteristics, risk factors for HIV infection, respiratory complications, and CD4+ lymphocyte counts were evaluated in these patients. Results: All patients were males. The mean age was 35 years (age range: 15 to 63 years). Among 34 cases with available CD4+ lymphocyte count results, 70.6% had results

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