Neuropathology of AIDS

Between 1986 and 1991, around 1000 HIV patients were treated at the Auguste-Viktoria Krankenhaus (AVK) in Berlin. Among the 395 AIDS patients who died at the Hospital during this period, 180 autopsies (46%) were carried out. From 1986 to 1990 the annual number of autopsies rose continually. Table 3.1 presents the distribution of opportunistic infectious complications typical of AIDS that we found in these 180 autopsies.