Exclusion Criteria
Co-existing Condition:
Patients with the following are excluded:
- Life expectancy < 3 months.
- = or < grade 4 performance score.
- AIDS-related dementia.
- Uncontrolled hypertension.
- Acute symptomatic opportunistic infection or other AIDS-defining illness.
Patients with the following are excluded:
- Life expectancy < 3 months.
- = or < grade 4 performance score.
- AIDS-related dementia.
- Uncontrolled hypertension.
- Acute symptomatic opportunistic infection or other AIDS-defining illness.
Patients must have:
- A clinical diagnosis of AIDS.
- Hematocrit < 30 percent.
- Endogenous serum erythropoietin level = or < 500 U/ml.
- A life expectancy = or > 3 months.
- > Grade 4 performance score.