| [post-transfusion hepatitis 1973 and 1974 in the zürich region]. | more than 100 000 units of blood were tranfused during the years 1973-74 in the region of zurich. 30 cases of posttransfusion hepatitis (pth) reported in this period were investigated with regard to the origin of the tranfused blood, and 24 (71%) proved to be hepatitis b antigen (hbs-ag) positive. despite the use of a sensitive method for hbs-ag screening, transfusion of hbs-ag positive blood was found to be responsible for pth in 4 cases only. in 88% of the cases there was no proof that the pth ... | 1977 | 834982 |
| [cause of death and autopsy findings in patients of the swiss hiv cohort study (shcs)]. | the swiss hiv cohort study (shcs) is a prospective cohort study of hiv-infected adolescents and adults seen at 7 outpatient clinics (swiss university hospitals in basle, berne, geneva, lausanne, zurich, the st. gall cantonal hospital and the civico hospital in lugano). the shcs serves as an infrastructure for different research projects and includes about 70% of all patients with advanced disease in switzerland. from april 1984 to november 1995 3120 hiv-infected patients of the shcs died. autops ... | 2000 | 11109604 |
| biopsy pathology of the gastrointestinal tract in human immunodeficiency virus-associated disease: a 5 year experience in zürich. | patients with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-associated disease are subject to a wide variety of unusual opportunistic infections and to the development of malignant tumours. these complications frequently manifest themselves within the gastrointestinal tract and endoscopic biopsies may contribute to their diagnosis. the results of 63 such biopsies from 28 patients are reviewed in this study. the diagnoses made included: upper gastrointestinal tract candidiasis (n = 6); cytomegalovirus infec ... | 1988 | 3215634 |