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April 2007 Cover
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HIV-infected patients fare as well as HIV-uninfected patients following surgical procedures, according to a large, new study-- a finding that may help sway recalcitrant surgeons and hospitals into performing operations on
HIV-infected patients with satisfactory CD4 cell counts and low viral loads. The California study matched 332 pairs of HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected patients who underwent similar surgeries. The investigators found that,
although mortality was more likely among HIV-infected patients through one year of follow-up, the excess death risk was not related to the surgeries themselves. The researchers noted, however, that patients with a CD4 cell count
below 50 or a viral load above 30,000 were more likely to experience complications from their surgery, and that HIV-infected patients were generally more likely to experience pneumonia after surgery than HIV-uninfected patients.
from TheBodyPro.com
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