METHOD OF ASSESSMENT THE SEVERITY OF A PATIENT'S CONDITION AT HIV INFECTION Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC G01N33/53 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, namely, infectious diseases, and can be used to assess the severity of a patient's condition at HIV infection. To do this, the patient is examined to identify the condition of his individual organs and systems and to assess the patient's condition on a point system with the subsequent conclusion about the state by the value of the integral indicator. Additionally, determine comorbid conditions and diseases, and also determine HIV RNA as an indicator of viral activity and CD4-lymphocyte content in the blood. Determine the integral indicator of the patient's condition (II) by the formula: , FE where Nn – quantitative assessment in points for individual co-infections and diseases, presented in Table 1. With an II value of less than 100, it is concluded that the patient is in a satisfactory and stable state, 100 ≤ II < 300 – of moderate severity; 300 ≤ II < 500 – sever and with meaning II ≥ 500 – extremely sever.

EFFECT: usage of this method makes it possible to assess the severity of the patient's condition in HIV infection, taking into account the comorbidity, viral activity and the state of immunity.

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