The Spectrum of Clinical and Pathological Manifestations of AIDS in a Consecutive Series of 236 Autopsied Cases in Mumbai, India
Table 2
The prime cause of death and pathology prevalence in patients with HIV/AIDS.
Diseases
Prime cause of death ()
AIDS pathology prevalence ()
Tuberculosis
149 (63%)
152 (68%)
Bacterial pneumonia
33 (14%)
48 (21%)
Cryptococcosis
18 (8%)
18 (8%)
Toxoplasmosis
15 (6%)
15 (7%)
PCJ
1 (0.5%)
11 (5%)
Non-Hodgkinās lymphoma
7 (3%)
8 (4%)
CMV
0
35 (16%)
Cryptosporidiosis
0
6 (3%)
Candidiasis
0
6 (3%)
Kaposiās sarcoma
0
2 (1%)
Cirrhosis
6 (3%)
0
Pulmonary hemorrhage
1 (0.5%)
0
Cerebral malaria
1 (0.5%)
0
Pyogenic meningitis
1 (0.5%)
0
Bacterial peritonitis
1 (0.5%)
0
Acute pyelonephritis
1 (0.5%)
0
Amyloidosis
1 (0.5%)
0
Sq. cell carcinoma lung
1 (0.5%)
0
CMV, cryptosporidiosis, candidiasis, and Kaposiās sarcoma contributed to death, other infectious diseases identified were aspergillosis of lung 6 (cases, 3%) and intestinal strongyloidiasis (3 cases, 1%).