Laboratory data are presented on 15 patients with hemophilia A. Mean OKT4/OKT8 ratio in hemophiliac patients was significantly lower than in the controls. Although no patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have been found in Japan, hemophiliac patients are supposed to be at increased risk of AIDS by our studies.

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors. HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the blood...

conclusions based on existing data, hiv infection surveillance, performance of standard precaution, and post exposure prophylaxis with anti-retroviral drugs outlined in this review article represent reasonable interim approaches to this complex problem. context human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) concentrated in injecting drug users (idus) ...

Six men with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, treated with combined ganciclovir induction therapy and hyperimmune globulin (CMV-IGIV) for 10 days followed by CMV-IGIV alone, had a median time to retinitis progression shorter (7 days) than had eight historical controls given ganciclovir maintenance therapy (54 days; P = 0.06) and similar to that in e...

this is a report of (wo cases of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis who were convinced of having acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. they bitterly criticised the incompetence of their medical advisers, on of always showed virus-like particles of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome organisms beneath their lip mucosa or penile skin. vie first case was advised to continue psychofytic compoun...

Background: Oral lesions are among the earliest clinical manifestations of human immunodeficiency (HIV) infection and are important in early diagnosis and for monitoring the progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of oral lesions and their relationship with a number of factors in HIV/AIDS patients attending an HIV cente...

A class of adaptive procedures is described. These procedures are relatively easy to implement and have many useful properties for audiologic applications. Recent advances in programmable hearing aids enable these techniques to be used effectively in adaptive prescriptive fitting of a hearing aid. All of the procedures are based on the simple up-down technique that, in addition to its simplicit...

Clinicians are often concerned that unrealistic prefitting expectations can have a negative impact on fitting success for new, hearing aid wearers. To investigate this concern and to explore the potential value of measuring expectations, we developed the Expected Consequences of Hearing aid Ownership (ECHO) questionnaire as a companion to the Satisfaction with Amplification in Daily Life questi...