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The surgical management of anorectal diseases in AIDS and pre-AIDS patients

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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The charts of 340 patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), AIDS-related complex (ARC), or AIDS-prodrome (AIDS-P), treated between January 1982 and April 1986 at the Roosevelt Division of the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, were reviewed. The incidence of anorectal disease was 34 percent. Fifty-two patients (15 percent) presentes with anorectal complaints prior to the diagnosis of AIDS, ARC, or AIDS-P. Over 50 percent of these patients were dead within 7.4 months. Fifty-one patients (15 percent) underwent 73 anorectal surgical procedures. Twenty-two of these patients (43 percent) were dead within six months, and only six patients had satisfactory wound healing 30 days after surgery. In addition to an 88 percent rate of poor healing, there was a 16 percent rate of major complications. Identification of these high-risk groups prior to any anorectal surgery is imperative to avoid unacceptable surgical complications. Aggressive surgical intervention should be reserved only for patients who did not fall into the high-risk groups presented.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Roosevelt Division, ST. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, 428 West 59th Street, 10019, New York, New York

    Steven D. Wexner M.D., William B. Smithy M.D., Jeffrey W. Milsom M.D. &  Thomas H. Dailey M.D.

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This paper received the New York Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons A. W. Martin Marino, Sr., M.D., Award at the meeting of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Houston, Texas, May 11 to 15, 1986.

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Wexner, S.D., Smithy, W.B., Milsom, J.W. et al. The surgical management of anorectal diseases in AIDS and pre-AIDS patients. Dis Colon Rectum 29, 719–723 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02555318

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