"Pleural Effusions in HIV Positive Patients: A Review of 231 Cases."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 1995 International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, held May 20-24, 1995, in Seattle, Washington, "Because there are no large studies done analyzing the etiology of pleural effusions in HIV⁺ patients, we retrospectively reviewed 231 cases of pleural effusions in HIV⁺ patients from July 1988 to September 1994 at our institution. Our results show that the mean age of the patients was 37 years and the male to female ratio was 5:1. The mean albumin was 2.1 and the mean CD4 count was 69. The etiology was infectious in 129 (56%) of the cases, non-infectious in 94 (41%) and unknown in 8 (3%). In the...

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