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The surgical management of anorectal diseases in AIDS and pre-AIDS patients.

Dis Colon Rectum. 1986 Nov;29(11):719-23. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/87029733
Wexner SD; Smithy WB; Milsom JW; Dailey TH

Abstract: The charts of 340 patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), AIDS-related complex (ARC), or AIDS-prodrome (AIDS-P), treated between January 1982 and April 1986 at the Roosevelt Division of the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, were reviewed. The incidence of anorectal disease was 34 percent. Fifty-two patients (15 percent) presented with anorectal complaints prior to the diagnosis of AIDS, ARC, or AIDS-P. Over 50 percent of these patients were dead within 7.4 months. Fifty-one patients (15 percent) underwent 73 anorectal surgical procedures. Twenty-two of these patients (43 percent) were dead within six months, and only six patients had satisfactory wound healing 30 days after surgery. In addition to an 88 percent rate of poor healing, there was a 16 percent rate of major complications. Identification of these high-risk groups prior to any anorectal surgery is imperative to avoid unacceptable surgical complications. Aggressive surgical intervention should be reserved only for patients who did not fall into the high-risk groups presented.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*COMPLICATIONS Adult Anus Diseases/ETIOLOGY/PHYSIOPATHOLOGY/*SURGERY AIDS-Related Complex/*COMPLICATIONS Female Homosexuality Human Male Middle Age Postoperative Complications Rectal Diseases/ETIOLOGY/PHYSIOPATHOLOGY/*SURGERY Wound Healing JOURNAL ARTICLE

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