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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 12/2014

01-12-2014 | Original

Temporal trends in critical events complicating HIV infection: 1999–2010 multicentre cohort study in France

Authors: François Barbier, Antoine Roux, Emmanuel Canet, Patricia Martel-Samb, Philippe Aegerter, Michel Wolff, Bertrand Guidet, Élie Azoulay

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 12/2014

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Abstract

Purpose

Multicentre data are limited to appraise the management and prognosis of critically ill human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. We sought to describe temporal trends in demographic and clinical characteristics, indications for intensive care and outcome in this patient population.

Methods

We conducted a cohort study of unselected HIV-infected patients admitted between 1999 and 2010 to 34 French ICUs contributing to the CUB-Réa prospective database.

Results

We included 6,373 consecutive patients. Over the 12-year period, increases occurred in median age (39 years in 1999–2001; 47 years in 2008–2010, p < 0.0001) and prevalence of comorbidities (notably malignancies, from 6.7 to 16.4 %, p < 0.0001). Admissions for respiratory failure (39.8 % overall), shock (8.1 %) and coma (22.7 %) decreased (p < 0.0001), while those for sepsis (19.3 %) remained stable. The main final diagnoses were bacterial sepsis (24.6 %) and non-bacterial acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining diseases (steady decline from 26.0 to 17.5 %, p < 0.0001). Patients increasingly received mechanical ventilation (from 42.9 to 54.0 %) and renal replacement therapy (from 9.6 to 16.8 %) (p < 0.0001), whereas vasopressor use remained stable (27.4 %). ICU readmissions increased after 2004 (p < 0.0001). ICU and hospital mortality (17.6 and 26.9 %, respectively) dropped markedly in the most severely ill patients requiring multiple life-sustaining therapies. Malignancies and chronic liver disease were heavily associated with hospital mortality by multivariate analysis, while the most common AIDS-defining complications (Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, cerebral toxoplasmosis and tuberculosis) had no independent impact.

Conclusions

Progressive ageing, increasing prevalence of comorbidities (mainly malignancies), a steady decline in AIDS-related illnesses and improved benefits from life-sustaining therapies were the main temporal trends in HIV-infected patients requiring ICU admission.
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Metadata
Title
Temporal trends in critical events complicating HIV infection: 1999–2010 multicentre cohort study in France
Authors
François Barbier
Antoine Roux
Emmanuel Canet
Patricia Martel-Samb
Philippe Aegerter
Michel Wolff
Bertrand Guidet
Élie Azoulay
Publication date
01-12-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 12/2014
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3481-7

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