Liver Complications Have Reached a Plateau as Cause of Hospital Admission and Death in HIV Patients in Madrid
- 1 April 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
- Vol. 25 (4) , 383-385
- https://doi.org/10.1089/aid.2008.0242
Abstract
Hospital admissions and deaths due to liver-related complications as result of chronic viral hepatitis are globally on the rise in HIV patients. However, a steady decline in liver-related hospitalizations and deaths has occurred at our HIV clinic in Madrid since year 2003. Hepatic complications are currently still responsible for 8.7% of all hospital admissions and one-third of in-hospital deaths, with hepatitis C virus infection by far the leading etiologic agent.Keywords
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