Survival of AIDS patients in Croatia prior to the introduction of combined antiretroviral therapy with protease inhibitors.
We report our experience on survival of adults with AIDS, treated at the University Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia from October 1986 to December 1998. The median survival of our 116 patients was 15.8 months. Multivariate analysis showed that factors independently associated with survival were type of presenting AIDS indicator disease and CD4+ cell count.
Begovac
J
J
University Hospital for Infectious Diseases Dr Fran Mihaljević, Zagreb, Croatia. jbegovac@fran.bfm.hr
Kniewald
T
T
Ugarković
N
N
Lisić
M
M
Sonicki
Z
Z
Jazbec
A
A
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000401:mortality*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D023241:Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active; D017523:Croatia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016019:Survival Analysis