HIV/AIDS Complications

Kaiser study shows surgery safer for HIV patients due to new HAART treatments, better health

Published in Vaccine Weekly, January 17th, 2007

The modern treatment era of triple-combination AIDS therapies is making it possible for HIV+ patients to safely have surgeries they may not have risked a decade ago, according to a new study by Kaiser Permanente researchers.

The study, the largest to date on the topic, appears in the Archives of Surgery, a JAMA/Archives journal.

Researchers looked at the electronic and print medical records of HIV+ patients to determine how well they did compared with HIV-negative patients following both elective and urgent surgeries and found few differences in the post-surgical outcomes between the two groups.

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-01-17)

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