| the spectrum of mycobacterium kansasii disease associated with hiv-1 infected patients. | louisiana is known to be an area endemic for mycobacterium kansasii (mk). since mk tends to disseminate in immunocompromised patients, one might, therefore, expect to observe an increasing number of mk infections associated with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv-1). a systematic 60-month review of clinical, microbiologic, and radiographic data associated with mk was performed from two major referral centers in new orleans. from june 30, 1983 through june 30, 1988, mk was isolated from 72 patient ... | 1991 | 2016689 |
| success in implementing public health service guidelines to reduce perinatal transmission of hiv--louisiana, michigan, new jersey, and south carolina, 1993, 1995, and 1996. | in 1994, the public health service (phs) published guidelines for zidovudine (zdv) use to reduce perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) (1), and in 1995 published guidelines for hiv counseling and voluntary testing of pregnant women (2). to directly assess the implementation of these guidelines and to identify barriers to the continued reduction of perinatal transmission, four states that conduct surveillance for hiv/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) (louisiana, mic ... | 1998 | 9733415 |
| distribution of human papillomavirus type 16 variants in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-positive and -negative women. | the prevalence of human papillomavirus type 16 e6 variant lineages was characterized in a cross-sectional study of 24 human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (hiv)-positive and 33 hiv-negative women in new orleans. the european prototype was the predominant variant in the hiv-negative women (39.4 %), while in the hiv-positive women the european 350g variant was predominant (29.1 %). in exact logistic regression models, hiv-positive women were significantly more likely to harbour any variant with a n ... | 2004 | 15105540 |
| factors associated with hospital length of stay among hiv-infected adults in louisiana. | this retrospective study aimed to evaluate the effect of predisposing (demographic), enabling (organizational), and illness (health status) factors on human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)/acquired immunodeficiency virus (aids)-related hospital length of stay (los). inpatient hospital visit record data from 1998 through 2003 was abstracted from the louisiana hospital inpatient discharge database. we hypothesized that enabling, not predisposing or illness factors, influenced hospital los among hiv-i ... | 2010 | 21294489 |
| restoration of medical oncology services at lsu interim public hospital in new orleans after hurricane katrina: a two-year experience of lsuhsc. | oncology services at charity hospital were discontinued following hurricane katrina in august 2005. medical oncology and chemotherapy services resumed at the louisiana state university interim public hospital in 2007. demographic, clinical, and displacement data of the re-established patient cohort were reviewed. | 2011 | 21827061 |