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- Document 0206
- DOCN M9610206
- TI Association of hepatic veno-occlusive disease with the acquired
- immunodeficiency syndrome.
- DT 9601
- AU Buckley JA; Hutchins GM; Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical
- Institutions,; Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- SO Mod Pathol. 1995 May;8(4):398-401. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
- MED/96053500
- AB AIMS: Observation of a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency
- syndrome and veno-occlusive disease (VOD) at autopsy prompted us to
- review the liver pathology of autopsied patients with human
- immunodeficiency virus seropositivity and/or acquired immunodeficiency
- syndrome (HIV/AIDS) to determine the frequency of occurrence of VOD and
- the circumstances in which it arose. METHODS: the patients studied had
- been autopsied at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, a referral center, between
- April 1981 and July 1993. We reviewed 275 adult HIV/AIDS patients
- autopsied with liver slides available for evaluation. Twenty cases
- fulfilled the pathologic criteria for VOD, central vein obliteration and
- sclerosis, sinusoidal congestion and fibrosis, and perivenular
- hepatocellular degeneration and necrosis. The autopsy cases were
- compared for age, race, gender, duration of HIV infection, and risk
- factor for the acquisition of HIV infection. The clinical and pathologic
- features of the 20 cases with VOD were reviewed. RESULTS: of the 275
- HIV/AIDS patients, 20 (7.3%) had VOD. The average age was 41 yr (range
- 30-58) and most cases were black males (15 black, 5 white, and 18 male).
- The duration of HIV infection ranged from 6 mo to 8 yr (mean, 19 mo).
- The risk factor for acquiring HIV infection was primarily intravenous
- drug abuse (12 of 20, 60%). Six patients had homosexual or bisexual
- contacts, and two had other or unknown risk factors. In contrast, among
- the total of 275 HIV/AIDS autopsied patients reviewed, only 72 (26%)
- reported intravenous drug abuse whereas 157 (57%) individuals listed
- homosexual or bisexual contacts as a risk for developing HIV infection.
- Forty-six patients (17%) had other or unknown means of HIV infection.
- Statistical analysis by risk factor showed that intravenous drug abuse
- was statistically significant as a predictor for the development of VOD
- in an HIV/AIDS patient (P < 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: VOD of the liver can be
- seen in patients with HIV/AIDS and is associated with intravenous drug
- abuse.
- DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*PATHOLOGY Adult Aged
- Female Hepatic Veno-Occlusive Disease/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*PATHOLOGY Human
- Liver/PATHOLOGY Male Middle Age Substance Abuse,
- Intravenous/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*PATHOLOGY Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
- JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
- protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).
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