[Evaluation of HIV infection progression in patients treated at the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow in the years 1989-1993].

Outpatient Clinic and hospital department for HIV infected person have been working in Chair and Department of Infectious Diseases CM UJ since september, 1st, 1989. The aim of the study was to estimate the progression of HIV infection in patients of our clinic during the four years of observation. The 183 persons with confirmed HIV infection were enrolled in this study. Data for 114 were closely analysed. The diagnoses and stage of the diseases were establish according to the objective and subjective criteria we considered: medical history of patient, especially complaints associated with HIV infection, as objective-physical examination and laboratory investigations, especially the number of CD4 lymphocytes. The stage of the disease were establish according the criteria of Center for Diseases Control. The course of the diseases was compared according to risk group, sex, social condition. The results were evaluated statistically and compared with other medical publications. Judging from the obtained results it can be clearly concluded that there are no differences in course of the diseases associated with life condition. In some cases diseases associated with life condition. In some cases disease has rapid progression, sometimes slowly. Most of evaluated patients were injecting drug users. In the cohort of homosexual and bisexual men we often observed advance form of HIV infection. No differences were found in the course of HIV infection concerning sex and life condition. Illness observed in our patients with HIV infection was typical and compared with that which are presented in other medical publications, only some of them were observed rare or never.