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 DOCN  M94A2011
 TI    Hope of life of AIDS patients: experience of the Avignon Hospital,
       Vaucluse, France.
 DT    9412
 AU    Lepeu G; Touchais AM; Bournaz M; Soutif C; Boulat O; Chami S; Imbert S;
       Bakouch M; Laroche A; Hematology Unit, C.H. Henri Duffault, Avignon,
       France.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):400 (abstract no. PD0208). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370564
 AB    Hope of life of AIDS Patients: experience of the AVIGNON Hospital,
       France. The progress of therapy increase the duration of life of HIV
       infected patients, essentielly with differing the opportunistic
       infection of AIDS. But the benefit in term of survival on AIDS Patients
       is not very clear. A retrospective study of 170 patients AIDS deceaded,
       between 1993 and december 1993 is analysed. The sex, contamination, year
       of discovery of HIV positivity, the opportunistic infection prophylaxis
       and the duration of hospitalisation are not significant. The age,
       immunodeficiency status, infections during AIDS and cachexy are
       important elements for the survival (p 0.001). The interest of
       prophylaxis (against HIV or opportunistic infection) is not clear (p =
       0.05). These elements must be considered for the decision of treatment
       of asymptomatic HIV infected patients.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/MORTALITY/*PSYCHOLOGY/THERAPY
       AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/MORTALITY/*PSYCHOLOGY/  THERAPY
       Female  France  Human  Male  Palliative Treatment  *Quality of Life
       Retrospective Studies  *Sick Role  Survival Rate  MEETING ABSTRACT

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