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Table 2 Summary of diagnoses related to severe sepsis and opportunistic infections in the intensive care unit from 2005 to 2010

From: Mortality of patients infected with HIV in the intensive care unit (2005 through 2010): significant role of chronic hepatitis C and severe sepsis

 

2a: Non-HIV versus all HIV patients

2b: HIV versus HIV/HCV patients

Control group

All-HIV group

P value

HIV group

HIV/HCV group

P value

Severe sepsis

2,954 (39.41%)

1,092 (57.75%)

<0.001

711 (59.70%)

381 (54.43%)

0.028

Acute organ dysfunction

      

 Respiratory

4,882 (65.13%)

1,442 (76.26%)

<0.001

917 (76.99%)

525 (75.00%)

0.353

 Cardiovascular

2,463 (32.85%)

811 (42.88%)

<0.001

498 (41.81%)

313 (44.71%)

0.237

 Renal

2,211 (29.49%)

608 (32.15%)

0.026

374 (31.40%)

234 (33.42%)

0.389

 Hematologic

937 (12.50%)

326 (17.23%)

<0.001

208 (17.46%)

118 (16.85%)

0.783

 Metabolic

693 (9.24%)

221 (11.68%)

0.001

139 (11.67%)

82 (11.71%)

1

 Neurologic

793 (10.57%)

216 (11.42%)

0.309

119 (9.99%)

97 (13.85%)

0.013

 Hepatic

731 (9.75%)

214 (11.31%)

0.047

117 (9.82%)

97 (13.85%)

0.009

Site of infection

      

 Respiratory

1,775 (23.67%)

900 (47.59%)

<0.001

620 (52.05%)

280 (40.00%)

<0.001

 Digestive

950 (12.67%)

219 (11.58%)

0.281

102 (8.56%)

117 (16.71%)

<0.001

 Genitourinary

275 (3.66%)

80 (4.23%)

1

61 (5.12%)

19 (2.71%)

0.016

 Central nervous system

75 (1.01%)

79 (4.17%)

<0.001

50 (4.19%)

29 (4.14%)

1

 Skin, soft tissue, or bone

153 (2.04%)

32 (1.69%)

0.377

19 (1.59%)

13 (1.85%)

0.809

 Circulatory

77 (1.02%)

17 (0.89%)

0.710

13 (1.09%)

4 (0.57%)

0.365

Opportunistic infections

1,428 (19.05%)

931 (49.23%)

<0.001

645 (54.16%)

286 (40.86%)

<0.001

 Candidiasis (pulmonary or esophageal)

78 (1.02%)

82 (4.34%)

<0.001

59 (4.95%)

23 (3.29%)

0.109

 Cryptococcosis (extrapulmonary)

1 (0.01%)

27 (1.43%)

<0.001

18 (1.51%)

9 (1.29%)

0.843

 Cytomegalovirus (other than liver, spleen, or nodes)

40 (0.53%)

80 (4.23%)

<0.001

70 (5.88%)

10 (1.43%)

<0.001

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

76 (1.01%)

82 (4.34%)

<0.001

60 (5.04%)

22 (3.14%)

0.066

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia

12 (0.16%)

225 (11.90%)

<0.001

195 (16.37%)

30 (4.29%)

<0.001

 Pneumonia (bacterial), recurrent

1,336 (17.82%)

579 (30.62%)

<0.001

367 (30.81%)

212 (30.29%)

0.850

 Toxoplasmosis of brain

3 (0.04%)

40 (2.12%)

<0.001

33 (2.77%)

7 (1.00%)

0.016

  1. Values are expressed as absolute number (percentage). P values were calculated by χ2 test, and P values in bold indicates statistically significant differences between groups. HCV, hepatitis C virus; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus.