Murphy M, Misquito N, Pomeroy L, Mulcahy F
Department of Genitourinary Medicine, St James's Hospital, Dublin.
Int J STD AIDS. 1991 Nov-Dec;2(6):436-9. doi: 10.1177/095646249100200609.
Between January 1987 and December 1990, 179 patients (131 men, 48 women) infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) were admitted 408 times to St James's Hospital, Dublin. One hundred and thirty-two (73.7%) patients were intravenous drug users. The commonest cause of admission was bacterial lower respiratory tract infection (84 patients, 21%). At the time of study 95 (53%) patients fulfilled Centers for Disease Control (CDC) criteria for stage IV disease. HIV antibody status in 26 of these patients with stage IV disease was unknown prior to their admission to hospital with symptomatic disease. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was the most frequent stage IV defining diagnosis. The mean length of hospital stay for patients with CDC stage II/III and stage IV disease was 8.5 (median 7) and 13.5 (median 8) days respectively.
1987年1月至1990年12月期间，179例感染1型人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV-1）的患者（131名男性，48名女性）408次入住都柏林圣詹姆斯医院。其中132例（73.7%）患者为静脉吸毒者。入院最常见的原因是细菌性下呼吸道感染（84例患者，占21%）。在研究时，95例（53%）患者符合美国疾病控制中心（CDC）IV期疾病标准。在这95例IV期疾病患者中，有26例在因症状性疾病入院前HIV抗体状态未知。卡氏肺孢子虫肺炎是最常见的IV期确诊诊断。CDC II/III期和IV期疾病患者的平均住院时间分别为8.5天（中位数7天）和13.5天（中位数8天）。
