title: [Abdominal emergencies in patients with AIDS].
abstract: This is a report on five patients suffering from AIDS who underwent emergency abdominal surgery: One patient with gangrenous appendicitis, three with a small bowel perforation and a third with a colonic bleeding. The first outlived the appendectomy by seven month; the second and the third the small bowel resection by eight weeks resp. by 10 weeks. The fourth died four weeks after hemicolectomy and a relaparotomy with colonic resection for profuse bleeding. The fifth died because of infiltration of the heart by a malignant lymphoma. None of the patients developed any complications due to surgery. A review is given on emergencies caused by abdominal diseases which a surgeon must be aware of in patients with AIDS. The palliative character of surgery in these patients is stressed.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Chirurgie, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaminski
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirner
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Low
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rockstroh
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vogel
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D016483:Lymphoma, AIDS-Related / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery