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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 625-633Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/526778
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI062492-04, F33 AI065207-01X1, R01 AI062492, R01 AI-06492, F33 AI065207, F33 AI065207-01, F33 AI-065207, R01 AI062492-03] Funding Source: Medline
- National Institute for Health Research [PHCS/03/01] Funding Source: researchfish
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Background. Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) remains the leading cause of opportunistic infection among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected persons. Previous studies of PCP that identified case-fatality risk factors involved small numbers of patients, were performed over few years, and often focused on patients who were admitted to the intensive care unit. Objective. The objective of this study was to identify case-fatality risk factors present at or soon after hospitalization among adult HIV-infected patients admitted to University College London Hospitals (London, United Kingdom) from June 1985 through June 2006. Patients and Methods. We performed a review of case notes for 494 consecutive patients with 547 episodes of laboratory-confirmed PCP. Results. Overall mortality was 13.5%. Mortality was 10.1% for the period from 1985 through 1989, 16.9% for the period from 1990 through June 1996, and 9.7% for the period from July 1996 through 2006 (P=.0142). Multivariate analysis identified factors associated with risk of death, including increasing patient age (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.54; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.11-2.23;P = .011), subsequent episode of PCP (AOR, 2.27; 95% CI, 1.14-4.52;), low hemoglobin level at hospital admission (AOR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.60-0.83; Pp. 019), low partial pressure of oxygen breathing room air at hospital admission (AOR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.60-0.81; P <.001), presence of medical comorbidity (AOR, 3.93; 95% CI, 1.77-8.72;), and pulmonary Kaposi P <.001 Pp. 001 sarcoma (AOR, 6.95; 95% CI, 2.26-21.37; P=.001). Patients with a first episode of PCP were sicker (mean partial pressure of oxygen at admission +/- standard deviation, kPa) than those with a second or third episode 9.3 +/- 2.0 of PCP (mean partial pressure of oxygen at admission +/- standard deviation, kPa;), but mortality 9.9 +/- 1.9 Pp. 008 among patients with a first episode of PCP (12.5%) was lower than mortality among patients with subsequent episodes of PCP (22.5%) (P=.019). No patient was receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy before presentation with PCP, and none began highly active antiretroviral therapy during treatment of PCP. Conclusions. Mortality risk factors for PCP were identifiable at or soon after hospitalization. The trend towards improved outcome after June 1996 occurred in the absence of highly active antiretroviral therapy.
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