Epidemiological and pathomorphological autopsy findings in AIDS

: The autopsy findings in 41 AIDS patients (1982-1991), including a rather large group of 8 patients without one of the classical risk factors for HIV, showed a much higher rate of opportunistic infections, especially CMV and fungal infections, as well as Kaposi's sarcoma in homosexuals than in the others. There was no decline in the incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma over the last few years. The bone marrow findings, which presented a remarkable high cellularity in these patients, well correlated with the so-called HIV-myelopathy, which is highly suggestive to represent a direct HIV-related damage of the bone marrow.