Open AccessInfluence of HIV virus in the hospital stay and the occurrence of postoperative complications classified according to the Clavien-Dindo classification and in comparison with the Charlson Comorbidity Index in patients subjected to urologic and general surgery operations. Our preliminary results
Author(s) -
Dimitrios Dimitroulis,
Georgios Karaolanis,
Ioannis Katafigiotis,
Ioannis Anastasiou,
Viktoria–Varvara Palla,
Athanasios Kontos,
Mordechai Duvdevani,
Konstantinos Kontzoglou
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
archivio italiano di urologia andrologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.429
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2282-4197
pISSN - 1124-3562
DOI - 10.4081/aiua.2017.2.125
Subject(s) - medicine , charlson comorbidity index , life expectancy , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , comorbidity , retrospective cohort study , complication , population , surgery , immunology , environmental health
From the first time that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was discovered, till today both the quality of life and survival expectancy of HIV-infected patients have markedly improved. As the life expectancy of these patients increases due to the use of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) also increases the number of HIV-positive patient to be subjected to an operation. Different studies have examined the occurrence of complications in this particular group of patients and their possible susceptibility to infections or other complications that could lead to increased hospital stay, morbidity and mortality with controversial results.