title: Haemophilia patients with HIV- and HCV-infection. Long term survival.
abstract: At present (2010), we investigate in a long term study on psychosocial aspects of haemophilia at the Munich Haemophilia Centre factors which could be held responsible for the large number of still living HIV+ patients while many patients died from AIDS or from diseases caused by HCV during the 1990ies.
  
  
  METHODS
  We retrospectively compare medical and psychosocial data of 15 HIV+ long term survivors (L-S), 15 HIV+ later on deceased patients and 15 HIV-, all of them deriving from the original investigation group from 1985 including 52 patients (30 HIV+, 22 HIV-). We prove the validity of our psychosocial factors by the SF 36 which currently serves as gold standard. The actual psychosocial factors and medical parameters of the 15 L-S are checked against the data of the 15 HIV- patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In 1985 already, we retrospectively found significantly higher values regarding psychosocial factors within the group of the L-S as opposed to the later on deceased ones. Highly significant are the facts that more than 90 % of HIV+ L-S have had a good relationship to their fathers and are still employed today in contrast to the deceased HIV+ patients. At present, the differences regarding psychosocial factors between HIV+ L-S and HIV-negative patients are vanishing.
authors: Facharzt für Psychosomatische Medizin, Psychotherapie Psychoanalyse, München. schneiderdrmm@t-online.de
authors: M M
authors: MM
authors: Schneider
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Shows
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Giebl
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Schramm
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D020276:HIV Long-Term Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D006467:Hemophilia A / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations