Is AIDS a floating point between HIV seroconversion and death?
The incubation time as well as other factors before AIDS did not affect survival after AIDS. Survival from AIDS to death can be predicted by data obtained at the time of AIDS diagnosis, such as type of diagnosis, age and CD4 cell count. AIDS seems to be a significant point in progression to death, and not just a floating point between infection and death affected by prior factors for persons who did not receive effective therapy and did not have long incubation times.
The present findings indicate that impairment of portal venous flow is the major driving force for the development of lobar atrophy in the rat and that atrophy/hypertrophy complex can be produced in a rodent model.