[The efficacy of antiretroviral treatment in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. A study of 807 patients].

Background: The natural history of HIV infection and its related diseases has changed after the introduction of new potent antiretroviral therapies (HAART). We have performed this study to analyse in our hospital the natural history of HIV infection in relation to the therapeutics advances.

Patients And Methods: We have exhaustively revised the clinic records of all the 807 adult HIV-infected patients followed at the HUC from January 1985 to December 1999.