“…However, with advancements in ART, HIV infection is now becoming a controllable chronic disease (20,21). Some recent studies revealed that postoperative complication rates in patients with well-controlled HIV infections were comparable to those in HIV-negative patients (15,(22)(23)(24)(25)(26). CD4+ lymphocyte status is one of the indicators of HIV infection status (27,28), and various reports have revealed that a low CD4+ lymphocyte count (especially < 200 cells/μL) was associated with a significant increase in postoperative complications (12,29,30).…”