| HIV INFECTED PATIENTS WHO VISITED EMERGENCY CENTER |
| Suck Ju Cho |
| Department of Emergency Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan, Korea. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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The author has reviewed 16 HIV infected individuals who visited emergency center. The results were as follows ; 1.
In view of sex, age distribution, and clinical state, most of the patients managed in emergency room were known HIV infected patients, and they were in progressed state to AIDS. 2. The symptom, and sign were nonspecific in most of the patients. 3. In view of sex, age distribution, course of infection, clinical state, and other foreign report, patients who visit emergency room have proportionaly high incidence of HIV infection to general population. Therefore, systemized effort is needed to detect, and manage them. |
| Key words:
HIV, Emergency room |
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