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Coexistent HIV infection is not associated with increased in-hospital mortality in critically ill patients with cancer

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Funding

This study was funded by AC Camargo Cancer Center ICU.

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  1. Intensive Care Unit, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil

    Fabrício Rodrigues Torres de Carvalho & Pedro Caruso

  2. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil

    Fabrício Rodrigues Torres de Carvalho & Ary Serpa Neto

  3. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital das Clínicas, da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Yeh-Li Ho & Daniel Joelsons

  4. Department of Intensive Care, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location ‘AMC’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Ary Serpa Neto

  5. Pulmonary Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Pedro Caruso

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de Carvalho, F.R.T., Ho, YL., Joelsons, D. et al. Coexistent HIV infection is not associated with increased in-hospital mortality in critically ill patients with cancer. Intensive Care Med 46, 2105–2107 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06225-w

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