Diagnostic groups:
(1) mild diagnoses
(2) severe diagnoses
(3) very severe diagnoses
Mild diagnoses:
(1) esophageal candidiasis
(2) cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma
(3) Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
(4) extrapulmonary tuberculosis
Severe diagnoses (AIDS defining disorders not included in the mild and very severe groups):
(1) candida of bronchus, trachea or lungs
(2) invasive cervical carcinoma
(3) disseminated or extrapulmonary coccidioidomycosis
(4) disseminated or extrapulmonary histoplasmosis
(5) extrapulmonary cryptococcosis
(6) chronic cryptosporidiosis (> 1 month duration)
(7) chronic isosporiasis (> 1 month duration)
(8) HIV-related encephalitis
(9) cytomegalovirus infection other than liver, spleen or lymph nodes
(10) CMV retinitis
(11) Herpes simplex with chronic ulcers (> 1 month duration), bronchitis, pneumonitis, or esophagitis
(12) disseminated or extrapulmonary atypical mycobacteria infection
(13) recurrent pneumonia (2 or more episodes within a 1 year period)
(14) progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
(15) recurrent Salmonella septicemia
(16) toxoplasmosis of brain
(17) wasting syndrome due to HIV
Very severe diagnoses:
(1) malignant lymphoma
score =
= (300 * (number of very severe diagnoses)) + (100 * (number of severe diagnoses)) + (20 * (number of mild diagnoses)) - (minimum CD4 lymphocyte count per µL since onset of AIDS)
Interpretation
|
Score
|
AIDS Grade
|
Death Rate
|
|
< 0
|
I
|
1.1 per 10 person years
|
|
0 - 99
|
II
|
2.7 per 10 person years
|
|
>= 100
|
III
|
10.5 per 10 person years
|
(from Table 3, page 14, and Table 6, page 15)
