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Surgery in Patients With Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Gene Robinson, MD;
Samuel E. Wilson, MD;
Russell A. Williams, MD
Arch Surg. 1987;122(2):170-175.
Abstract
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Between 1982 and 1985, 21 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (20 men and one woman; mean age, 36 years) underwent 31 surgical procedures at the Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, or the UCLA Medical Center (skin, lymph node, and endoscopic biopsies were excluded). The operations included seven emergencies and 24 elective operations (eight major and 16 minor). Pathologic findings included cytomegalovirus colon perforation (two), disseminated Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) of the small and large bowel (one), cystic duct obstruction by KS (one), poorly differentiated gastrointestinal lymphoma (one), Candida acalculous cholecystitis (one), central nervous system toxoplasmosis (two), amebic encephalitis with abscess (one), staphylococcal botryomycosis of the pericardium (one), pulmonary KS (one), and cytomegalovirus (one). The overall operative (30 days) mortality rate was 48% (10/21). The emergency surgery rate was 57% (4/7), elective, 43% (6/14). The high operative mortality rate in these patients was usually due to progression of opportunistic infections or malignancy.
(Arch Surg 1987;122:170-175)
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, Calif (Drs Robinson, Wilson, and Williams); and the Department of Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine (Drs Wilson and Williams).
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 21, 1986.
Read before the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, Chicago, April 21, 1986.
Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W Carson St, Torrance, CA 90509 (Dr Williams).
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