Autopsy patterns of disease among subgroups of an inner-city Bronx AIDS population

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 48-54

  Markowitz, Glen S ^a   Concepcion, Lydia ^a   Factor, Stephen M ^a   Borczuk, Alain C ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; Autopsy; Cytomegalovirus; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GADUS MORHUA; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII;

EID: 0029743278     PISSN: 10779450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042560-199609000-00008     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Update: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - United States, 1994. JAMA 1995;273:692.
2. Biggar RJ, Rosenberg PS. HIV infection/AIDS in the United States during the 1990s. Clin Infect Dis 1993;17(suppl 1): S219-23.
3. Drucker E, Vermund SH. Estimating population prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus infection in urban areas with high rates of intravenous drug use: a model of the Bronx in 1988. Amer J Epidemiol 1989;130:133-142.
4. Schrager L, Friedland G, Feiner C, Kahl P. Demographic characteristics, drug use, and sexual behavior of I.V. drug users with AIDS in Bronx, New York. Public Health Rep 1991;106:78-84.
5. Selik RM, Castro KG, Pappaioanou M. Distribution of AIDS cases, by racial/ethnic group and exposure category, United States, June 1, 1981-July 4, 1988. CDC Surveillance Study SS-3. 1988;37:1-9.
6. Thomas PA, Weisfuse IB, Greenberg GA, Tytun A, Stellman SD. Trends in the first ten years of AIDS in New York City. The New York City Department of Health AIDS Surveillance Team. Amer J Epidermiol 1993;137:121-33.
7. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. Update: AIDS among women - United States, 1994. JAMA 1995;273:767-8.
8. Schuman P, Sobel JD. Women and AIDS. Aust NZ J Obstet Gynecol 1993;33:341-50.
9. Williams AB. Women and the AIDS epidemic: no longer hidden. Today's OR-Nurse 1992;14:23-7.
10. Battjes RJ, Pickens RW, Amsel Z. HIV infection and AIDS risk behaviors among intravenous drug users entering methadone treatment in selected U.S. cities. J AIDS 1991;4:1148-54.
11. Centers for Disease Control Revision of the CDC surveillance case definition for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. MMWR 1987;36(suppl):3s-15s.
12. Centers for Disease Control. Revised classification system for HIV infection and expanded surveillance case definition for AIDS among adolescents and adults. MMWR 1992; 41(RR-17):1-19.
13. Fisher RA. The logic of inductive inference (with discussion), J R Stat Soc 1935;98:39-54.
14. Wilkes MS, Fortin AH, Felix JC, Godwin TA, Thompson WG. Value of necropsy in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Lancet 1988;2:85-8.
15. Afessa B, Greaves W, Green W, et al. Autopsy findings in HIV-infected inner-city patients. J AIDS 1992;5:132-6.
16. Ambros RA, Lee EY, Sharer LR, Khan MY, Robboy SJ. The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in intravenous drug abusers and patients with sexual risk. Hum Pathol 1987;18:1109-14.
17. Klatt EC, Nichols L, Noguchi TT. Evolving trends revealed by autopsies of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1994;118:884-90.
18. Monforte AD, Vago L, Lazzarin A, et al. AIDS-defining diseases in 250 HIV-infected patients: a comparative study of clinical and autopsy diagnoses. AIDS 1992;6:1159-64.
19. Moskowitz L, Hensley GT, Chan JC, Adams K. Immediate causes of death in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1985;109:735-8.
20. Niedt GW, Schinella RA. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - clinicopathologic study of 56 autopsies. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1985;109:727-34.
21. Beral V, Bull D, Jaffe H, et al. Is risk of Kaposi's sarcoma in AIDS patients in Britain increased if sexual partners came from United States or Africa? Br Med J 1991;302:524-5.
22. Elford J, McDonald A, Kaldor J. Kaposi's sarcoma as a sexually transmissible infection: an analysis of Australian AIDS surveillance data, the National HIV Surveillance Committee. AIDS 1993;7:1667-71.
23. Kempf W, Adams V, Pfaltz M et al. Human herpes virus type 6 and cytomegalovirus in AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma: No evidence of an etiologic association. Hum Pathol 1995;26:914-9.
24. Renne R, Zhong W, Herndier B, et al. Lytic growth of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus (human herpes virus 8) in culture. NatureMed 1996;2:342-6.
25. Fraser RS. Pulmonary aspergillosis: pathologic and pathogenetic features. Pathol Ann 1993;28(pt 1):231-77.
26. Polsky B, Gold JWM, Whimbley E, et al. Bacterial pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Ann Intern Med 1986;104:38-41.
27. Witt DJ, Craven DE, McCabe WR. Bacterial pneumonia in adult patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related complex. Am J Med 1987; 82:900-6.
28. Hirschtick RE, Glassroth J, Jordan MC, et al. Bacterial pneumonia in persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. N Engl J Med 1995;333:845-51.
29. Hoover DR, Black C, Jacobson LP, et al. Epidemiologic analysis of Kaposi's sarcoma as an early and later AIDS outcome in homosexual men. Am J Epidemiol 1993;138:266-78.