Intensive Care Usage by HIV-Positive Patients in the HAART Era

Table 3

Diagnoses resulting in the need for ICU admission among the patients included in this study.

Diagnosis	No.
PCP	6
Pneumonia	5
TB	3
Neurological infection*	2
Septic shock	8
Neutropaenic sepsis^#	5
Malignancy^¶	4
GI bleed	2
Pancreatitis	2
Other^§	6

* Toxoplasmosis and Pneumococcal meningitis.
^#All related to chemotherapy for malignancy; 4 patients had lymphoma and 1 had anal carcinoma.
^¶Further 9 patients were admitted for another reason but with a background of malignancy.
^§One patient with pneumothorax, 1 with liver failure, 1 with renal failure, 1 with status epilepticus, 1 with ulcerative colitis, and 1 with drug overdose.