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... cent of TB patients being aware of their HIV status in 2011 Preventing TB among HIV- infected Individuals The WHO currently recommends that all HIVinfected persons be screened for TB, and HIV- infected ... for HIV uninfected individuals Certain areas of uncertainty remain, including the regimen duration, dosage and frequency of administration of anti-TB drugs, optimal timing of initiation of ART ... update information on the screening, diagnosis and management of TB in HIV infected adults Diagnosis of TB in HIV- infected individuals Clinical screening algorithms: The WHO recommends TB screening...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... the presentation of the data Findings In Table we present the main findings regarding the analysis of the association of the various components of SES and adherence Income, level of education, and ... Self-report of missing doses in previous week, self-report of missing days of treatment in previous weeks (interview with patient) + examining medical record data of the Outpatient Clinic Optimal ... enrolling in the HIV Clinic + taking at least antiretroviral medication 149 HIV (+) adults, receiving drug regimens including nucleoside analogues + or more PIs 93 HIV (+) adults, participating in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 06:20

... in HIV- infected patients The control group existed of HIV- infected patients participating in the Slotervaart HIV cohort study who were using cART without ABC including a protease inhibitor (PI) ... only Page of patients using ABC were selected this finding was confirmed for fibrinogen and D-dimer levels Discussion We studied markers of inflammation and coagulation in HIV- infected patients ... http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/7/1/9 In the current study markers of inflammation and coagulation in HIV- infected patients on present combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) with or without ABC were compared in order to pinpoint...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... for the diagnosis of sepsis on ICU admission [1] It discriminates well between noninfected patients and infected patients Our study population did not include HIV- infected patients Moreover, ... value of eosinopenia in the diagnosis of sepsis (CAP) among HIV- infected patients Gil and colleagues showed in an internal medicine department that inflammatory syndrome associated with eosinophils ... association between eosinopenia and a higher ICU admission rate among HIV- infected patients suffering from CAP This finding was also reported in our work involving a diverse group of critically ill...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... of HIV infection 1.1.3 Clinical course of HIV infection 1.1.4 1.2 Treatment of HIV infection HIV- related lipodystrophy 10 1.2.1 Clinical features and definition of terms 10 1.2.2 Prevalence of ... based 1.1.3 Clinical course of HIV infection The course of HIV infection can be divided into a number of phases (Bartlett and Finkbeiner, 1998) The first phase of HIV infection is acute infection ... results of all subjects 60 3-1 Clinical and body composition data of HIV- infected patients with facial lipoatrophy at baseline and follow up 78 Clinical and body composition data of HIV- infected patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:58

... Improvements in HIV treatment, greater availability of medication and an increase in lifespan have led to a greater emphasis on QoL in HIV infected individuals With the greater availability of antiretroviral ... highlighting the importance of this study The current study investigated the specific relationship of childhood trauma on QoL in HIV- infected women The sample consisted of HIV- positive and HIVnegative ... early stage HIVinfected women In looking at QoL, we did not find any interactional effects between HIV status and a history of childhood trauma in this cohort of women We did, however, find evidence...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... infections in HIV- infected individuals receiving antiretrovirals Lancet Infect Dis 2005, 5:361-373 Federal HIV/ AIDS prevention and control office: Guidelines for management of opportunistic infections ... predominant HAART regimen given was 1b (combination of lamivudine, stavudine and efavirenz) followed by 1a (combinations of lamivudine, stavudine and nevirapine), 1d (combination zidovudine, lamivudine ... is in line with a previous study conducted elsewhere (8) Our finding of TB/IRD in majority of the IRD patients (9.7%) is in accordance with studies conducted in India, Thailand and Texas in which...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... the incidence of TB in HIV- infected patients by 80% or more (Badri et al, 2002; Girardi et al, 2000) The reduction in the prevalence of TB in HIV infected patients after the introduction of HAART ... predisposing factor for developing TB in people co -infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis In Africa, TB is often the first manifestation of HIV infection, and it is the leading cause of death ... resources, fishing and large and small scale industries The main business activities include insurance, travel, clearing and forwarding agencies, hoteliers, printing press to distributors of industrial...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... al.: Efavirenz plus zidovudine and lamivudine, efavirenz plus indinavir, and indinavir plus zidovudine and lamivudine in the treatment of HIV- 1 infection in adults N Engl J Med 1999, 341:1865-1873 ... part of combination HAART therapy regimens to ARV- http://www.jiasociety.org/content/8/2/36 naive, HIV- infected individuals As part of this clinical study, the pharmacokinetic profile of saquinavir-SGC ... Services Panel on Clinical Practices for Treatment of HIV Infection Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV- 1 -Infected Adults and Adolescents 2005 [http://aid sinfo.nih.gov/ContentFiles/AdultandAdolescentGL.pdf]...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... specialization in Infectious Diseases (ID) or HIV; number of years elapsed since residency; number of HIV inpatients seen per month; number of HIV outpatients seen per month; percentage of time spent seeing ... patient harm, including treatment failure, emergence of resistance and toxicity [3,8,9] Previous studies showed ART prescribing errors in HIV- infected hospitalized patients in as many as 26% of admissions ... clinical deterioration of HIV patients [7] The use of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) has led to major improvements in the management of HIV/ AIDS in the developed world and increasingly...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... for a second-line antiretroviral regimen for HIV type 1 -infected patients whose initial regimen of a fixed-dose combination of stavudine, lamivudine, and nevirapine fails Clin Infect Dis 2007, ... naïve HIV- infected patients, particularly in many resource-constrained countries [1] However, in patients who have delayed detection of treatment failure in this setting, the virus is often resistant ... defined as having plasma HIV- 1 RNA between 50 and 400 copies/mL after having

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... effects in this group of patients and 3) develop and validate a rapid method for determination of EFV concentrations in plasma to enable monitoring of drug concentrations in HIV- infected patients ... Page of Figure Plot of EFV plasma concentrations against sampling times R2 value of 0.0009 indicates no correlation between sampling times and EFV plasma concentrations of patients involved in ... identified in 25% of HIV infected patients with drug resistance in a recent study performed in Johannesburg [23] In our study 9% of patients had EFV concentrations below the therapeutic minimum of 1000...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... expressions of IRIS [2] HIV infection itself can also provoke IRIS [5,13] Numerous members of the cytokine network are integrally involved in regulating the replication of HIV as well as several steps of ... use of Luminex multi-analyte profiling technology allows for the analysis of many different cytokines in a single microtiter well Using this technology, we were able to identify the cytokine profiles ... scenarios that would incorporate our understanding of immune activation as a hallmark of progressive HIV infection together with the inflammatory manifestations of IRIS [30], our finding of elevated IL-10...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... baseline of HIV- infected individuals referred for assessment of hepatitis C treatment eligibility HCV treatment eligibility in HIV infected patients The HCV symptom inventory has a meaningful internal ... HCV symptom inventory in a population of HIV- coinfected patients referred for HCV treatment The aims of this study were: 1) to determine the reliability and validity of a HCV symptom inventory ... final manuscript Competing interests Dr Gish has consulting relationships with over 15 HCV related companies, involved in the treatment of HCV Other authors have non- financial competing of interest...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:22

... under receiver operating characteristic 0.732 ± 0.053; P < 0.0001) In sum, acute kidney injury, defined by means of the RIFLE criteria, is common among critically ill HIV- infected patients, and RIFLE ... and interpretation of data JAL, JN, FA, and MMP were involved in drafting the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content All authors have given final approval of ... helpful tool in the prognostic stratification of ICU HIV- infected patients Authors’ contributions JAL, JF, SJ made substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/12/208 Page of 11 Table Results of the final multivariate model* of factors associated to a delay in initiating treatment for tuberculosis, including systemic symptoms in HIV- infected individuals ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/12/208 Page of 11 Table Univariate analysis of the factors associated with a delay (defined according to the median value (cutoff)) in initiating treatment for tuberculosis in HIV- infected individuals ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/12/208 Page of 11 Table Univariate analysis of the factors associated with a delay (defined according to the median value (cutoff)) in initiating treatment for tuberculosis in HIV- infected individuals...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... be initiated Clinicians working in Khayelitsha found that difficulty making the diagnosis of TB in HIV- infected people when following these protocols led to delays in the initiation of TB treatment, ... earlier initiation of TB treatment in HIV- infected adults presenting with symptoms of PTB in a high TB incidence setting This algorithm should be validated and could be modified for use by nurses in ... without a definitive diagnosis being made In general, HIV- infected patients not improving on empirical TB treatment should be investigated for MDR TB, non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection, systemic...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... important to distinguish patients by stage of HIV disease and by treatment (ART, type of ART, or not [16]) The complexity of this far exceeds that of estimating the prognosis in HIV- negative patients ... since many of the included studies not meet modern research standards For example, the case definition, the onset of disease, or the beginning of follow-up in cohort studies (onset of symptoms, ... History of Tuberculosis for estimating the CF In order to obtain an estimate of the CF one needs either follow-up of incident cases or estimates of the frequency with which disease ends in death...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... picture of the natural history of HIV infection However, the findings of our study may be rep- resentative of the actual situation in resource-limited settings as we followed patients during routine ... complaint (82 patients, 40%) followed by weight loss (73 patients, 35%) and diarrhea (69 patients, 33%) Silky hair (softening, straightening, and loss of scalp hair) was found in 21% of the patients ... started to treat HIV patients with HAART in August 2003 Prior to the start of HAART, HIV- infected patients were registered and followed as part of a clinic to treat opportunistic infections Here,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... evaluation of the frequency of LFU and characteristics of patients who were LFU among adult HIV- infected patients attending a large HIV clinic in south London We then matched those patients who ... registered at a large inner-city clinic over a nine-year period, discontinued their follow up at the clinic Linkage with the national database of all HIV patients receiving care in the UK indicated that ... another clinic in the UK, and the remaining half (20% of all registered patients; 11.9% of those patients receiving HAART, and 32.2% not receiving HAART) received no further HIV care in the UK...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20