PATIENTS WITH HIV INFECTION IN A DISTRITAL HOSPITAL

• Autor(a) principal: Sá, Joana
• Data de Publicação: 1996
• Outros Autores: Parreira, Mário, Lobato, Cristina, Custódio, Paula, Poças, José
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/2284
• topic: VIH; Medicina Interna; hospital distrital; HIV; Internal Medicine; district hospital

The authors present a retrospective analysis of HIV infected patients treated in an Internai Medi­cine Ward, from January 1992 to June 1995. The following parameters were analysed: number of admissions per patient, time of permanence in the hospital, opportunistic complications, final outcome, medical counselling at leaving and dis­tribution according to sex, age, ethnic, infectious virus, risk group and staging. From the results one can highlight the following: 61 patients were admitted, with a total of 134 ad­missions: 20 in 1992, 35 in 1993, 60 in 1994 and 19 during the first semester of 1995. 57% of the pati­ents were drugs addicts and the most frequent opportunistic infection was tuberculosis. Of the 202 opportunistic complications observed, we could reach an accurate diagnosis in 47,6% of the cases. The average time of permanence in the hos­pital was 15,8 days. Mortality was 10% and 94% of the patients were sent to the outpatient clinic of Infectious Diseases. The authors tried to ma­tch the results with the social and economical si­tuation, comparing them with other national ca­suisty. The authors conclusion is that the HIV infecti­on is more and more an important reason of ad­mission, even in District Hospitals and in Inter­nal Medicine Wards.