TY - JOUR ID - 241135 TI - Respiratory Complications in Iranian Hospitalized Patients with HIV/AIDS JO - TANAFFOS (Respiration) JA - RSPR LA - en SN - 1735-0344 AU - Seyed Alinaghi, Seyed Ahmad AU - Vaghari, Bahram AU - Roham, Maryam AU - Moradmand Badie, Banafsheh AU - Jam, Sara AU - Foroughi, Maryam AU - Djavid, Gholamreza Esmaeeli AU - Hajiabdolbaghi, Mahboubeh AU - Hosseini, Mostafa AU - Mohraz, Minoo AU - McFarland, Willi AD - Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS (IRCHA), Imam Khomeini Hospital , Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. AD - Department of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, AD - Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS (IRCHA), Imam Khomeini Hospital , Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - CAPS and the Institute for Global Health, University of California, San Francisco, USA Y1 - 2011 PY - 2011 VL - 10 IS - 3(summer) SP - 49 EP - 54 KW - HIV KW - Respiratory complications KW - tuberculosis KW - Iran DO - N2 - 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 UR - https://www.tanaffosjournal.ir/article_241135.html L1 - https://www.tanaffosjournal.ir/article_241135_117d2a774a039eb0058cde089aaf56a4.pdf ER -