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Due to their impaired immune function, unusual multimorbidity, and extensive concomitant medication HIV-infected patients impose special and specific demands on those who deal with their perioperative care. ⋯ During their postoperative course, HIV-infected patients have to be more often admitted to intensive care unit and kept on artificial respiration unplannedly. Perioperative morbidity of HIV-infected patients increases with the stage of their disease. It is, however, not significantly elevated compared to that of HIV-negative subjects in similar preoperative health condition.