Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

  • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: case reporting at a university hospital
    Andrew Picken, BA, Robert Plona, RN, Pamela Parker, RN, John T. Carey, MD and Michael M. Lederman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1993, 60 (3) 202-206;

    BACKGROUND Planning and allocating resources for care of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) requires accurate assessment of disease incidence.

    OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy and completeness of AIDS case reporting at our institution, we reviewed all inpatient and outpatient records of patients with AIDS seen at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio, between January 1983 and July 1990.

    METHODS The patients were identified through review of hospital discharge summaries, ambulatory clinic listings, and laboratory identification of opportunistic infections.

    RESULTS We found that 24 of 291 AIDS cases (8%) seen at this institution had not been reported to state health departments. Of the 24 patients with unreported AIDS, 16 had received an AIDS diagnosis at other institutions, 11 had never been hospitalized at this institution, and 2 had used pseudonyms.

    CONCLUSIONS Review of AIDS case reporting can ascertain the magnitude of underreporting; the profile of patients who were unreported may be used to evaluate the accuracy of reporting elsewhere and to identify systematic problems in case reporting methods.

  • Rapid progression of HIV-1 infection to AIDS
    Michael B. Walsh, DO and Leonard H. Calabrese, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1992, 59 (6) 637-639;
  • Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with AIDS
    Glenn H. Segal, DO, Raymond R. Tubbs, DO, Norman B. Ratliff, MD, Michael L. Miller, DO and David L. Longworth, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 1990, 57 (4) 360-366;
  • Disseminated cutaneous fungal infection and AIDS
    Howard A. Oriba, MD, Jacob S. Lo, MD and Wilma F. Bergfeld, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 1990, 57 (2) 189-191;
  • Differentiation between AIDS-related and non-AIDS-related Kaposi’s sarcoma
    Wilma F. Bergfeld, M.D., Alexander Zemtsov, M.D. and Richard S. Lang, M.D.
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 1987, 54 (4) 315-319;
  • Epidemiologic and Laboratory Evaluation of Homosexual Males from an Area of Low Incidence for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
    Leonard H. Calabrese, D.O., Max R. Proffitt, Ph.D., Lewis Bocci, M.D., Kirk W. Easly, M.D., George Williams, Ph.D., Rafael Valenzuela, M.D., Barbara P. Barna, Ph.D., Manjula K. Gupta, Ph.D., Brian Davis, M.D. and John D. Clough, M.D.
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1986, 53 (3) 267-275;
  • Diagnostic value of fiberoptic bronchoscopy in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
    Christine Wollschlager, M.D. and Faroque Khan, M.B.
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 1985, 52 (4) 489-494;