Staging System for AIDS Patients

Is the patient HIV-positive with clinical AIDS?

Lowest CD4 lymphocyte count since onset of AIDS

• esophageal candidiasis?

• candida of bronchus, trachea or lungs?

• Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia?

• extrapulmonary tuberculosis?

• disseminated or extrapulmonary atypical mycobacterial infection?

• disseminated or extrapulmonary coccidioidomycosis?

• disseminated or extrapulmonary histoplasmosis?

• extrapulmonary cryptococcosis?

• recurrent pneumonia (2 or more episodes within a 1 year period)?

• recurrent Salmonella septicemia?

• chronic cryptosporidiosis (> 1 month duration)?

• chronic isosporiasis (> 1 month duration)?

• wasting syndrome due to HIV?

• cytomegalovirus infection other than liver, spleen or lymph nodes?

• Herpes simplex with chronic ulcers (> 1 month duration), bronchitis, pneumonitis, or esophagitis?

• progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy?

• toxoplasmosis of brain?

• HIV-related encephalitis?

• invasive cervical carcinoma?

• cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma?

• malignant lymphoma?