title: [Patients with AIDS admitted to the emergency service of the medical school at the University of São Paulo, in 1990].
abstract: In 1990, 12,319 patients, 235 of whom had AIDS (HIV IV), were admitted in the Emergency Division of the Hospital das Clínicas. The number of patients with AIDS represented 1.9% of all admissions and 4.2% of all clinical cases admitted. These 235 patients had 329 admissions; 163 were readmitted only once and 72 more than once. Mean time of permanence, ranging from one to 54 days, was 5.8 days. Approximately 70% of these AIDS patients came to our hospital from outside the area under our responsibility. Most of our patients were drug addicts. Kaposi's sarcoma was unusual.
authors.affiliation: Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pasternak
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Teixeira
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000367:Age Factors; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Doentes com AIDS atendidos no pronto socorro do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, em 1990.