Table 2.
Patient | Symptoms before AAIT | Clinical response after AAIT treatment |
|
---|---|---|---|
AIDS-related events at enrollment |
Systemic constitutional symptoms at enrollment | ||
01-W |
Pneumonia Sepsis Crysptosporidiosis EBV infection Wasting syndrome |
+++ |
No new opportunistic infections, doing well |
02-Z |
Pneumonia Pulmonary abscess Colitis EBV infection Wasting syndrome |
+++++ | Pulmonary abscess significantly improved within 1 month, doing well |
03-G |
Pneumonia PCP |
++ |
No new opportunistic infections, doing well |
04-D |
Pneumonia CMV infection Wasting syndrome |
++++ |
No new opportunistic infections, doing well |
05-Z |
Pneumonia PCP Oral candidiasis |
++ |
No new opportunistic infections, doing well |
06-L |
Pneumonia PCP CMV infection EBV infection |
++ |
No new opportunistic infections, doing well |
07-X |
Pneumonia PCP Oral candidiasis |
+++ | Phlegmon occurs 37 days later |
08-D |
Pneumonia PCP Oral candidiasis Wasting syndrome |
+++ |
No new opportunistic infections, doing well |
09-L |
Cryptosporidium enteritis Salmonella typhimurium enteritis Oral candidiasis CMV infection Wasting syndrome |
++++ |
No new opportunistic infections, doing well |
10-L |
Pneumonia PCP |
++ |
No new opportunistic infections, doing well |
11-S |
Pneumonia PCP Oral candidiasis |
++ |
No new opportunistic infections, doing well |
12-L |
Pneumonia PCP Oral candidiasis CMV infection |
++ |
No new opportunistic infections, doing well |
Clinical events and symptoms of 12 severely immunosuppressed AIDS patients were carefully recorded within 1 year after AAIT treatment. Systemic constitutional symptoms included intermittent or continuous fever (38 °C) for more than 1 month repeated night sweats, debilitating fatigue, persistent diarrhea, and a loss of body weight of more than 10%, each “+” represents a symptom
PCP pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, EBV Epstein–Barr virus, CMV cytomegalovirus