Hospitalization of HIV positive patients in a referral tertiary care hospital in Antananarivo Madagascar, 2010-2016: Trends, causes and outcome.
Mihaja RaberahonaTiana RazafinambinintsoaVolatiana AndriananjaNjaratiana RavololomananaJuliana TongavelonaRado RakotomalalaJohary AndriamamonjisoaRadonirina Lazasoa AndrianasoloRivonirina Andry RakotoariveloMamy Jean de Dieu RandriaPublished in: PloS one (2018)
AIDS-defining events were the most frequent cause of hospitalization during the study period. Factors associated with AIDS-defining events mostly reflected delay in HIV diagnosis. Factors associated with mortality were advanced age, neurological signs and AIDS-defining events.
Keyphrases
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv positive
- hiv infected
- human immunodeficiency virus
- men who have sex with men
- hiv aids
- end stage renal disease
- tertiary care
- south africa
- hiv testing
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- healthcare
- newly diagnosed
- peritoneal dialysis
- emergency department
- primary care
- prognostic factors
- hepatitis c virus
- type diabetes
- risk factors
- patient reported outcomes
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- cerebral ischemia