A New Preadmission Staging System for Predicting Inpatient Mortality from HIV-associated Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia in the Early Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) Era

摘要

A common severe complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). Re - cently, with increasing use of PCP prophylaxis and multidrug anti - retroviral therapy, the clinical manifestations of HIV infection have changed dramatically and the predictors of inpatient mortality for PCP may have also changed.