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View Post: underreported issues in the global burden of cryptococcal meningitis
27 Aug 2009 by rhona  
fungal burden, early fungicidal activity, and outcome in cryptococcal meningitis in antiretroviral-naïve or –experienced patients treated with amphotericin b or fluconazole. clin infect dis 2007 45:76-80. (23) tassie jm et al. ...
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View Post: UCD News - Early use of antiretroviral treatment improves survival ...
26 May 2009
... demonstrates that mortality rates of HIV patients can be almost halved when early antiretroviral (ARV) therapy is added to the treatment of AIDS-related opportunistic infections (OIs) such as pneumonia, meningitis or other serious ...
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View Post: HIV/AIDS Update -Expanded indication for Selzentry (maraviroc)
24 Nov 2009 by Francis*PAC  
On November 20, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration approved a supplemental NDA to expand the indication for Selzenttry (maraviroc) to include combination antiretroviral treatment of therapy naïve adults infected with CCR5-tropic ...
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View Post: HIV This Week » Blog Archive » Morbidity and co-morbidity
23 Sep 2009 by hivthisweek  
Cryptococcal meningitis is one of the most important HIV-related opportunistic infections, especially in the developing world. In order to help develop global strategies and priorities for prevention and treatment, it is important to estimate ... Expanding access to antiretroviral treatment is likely helping now to reduce the risk of cryptococcal disease, but disease burden remains very high and serious attention needs to be directed to better public health and clinical ...
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View Post: Complications of HIV Infection
18 Nov 2009 by asghar  
The condition may be exacerbated by antiretrovirals.19 It can cause postural hypotension, diarrhoea, impotence, impaired sweating and bladder dysfunction. HIV may directly involve the spinal cord, usually presenting with bilateral leg ...
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View Post: HIV-positive patients gain from early use of antiretrovirals
20 May 2009
The patients all had one or more opportunistic infection, with the most common ones being pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, cryptococcal meningitis and serious bacterial infections. Patients with tuberculosis were excluded from the ...
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View Post: PHARMACOLOGY-PAPER 2
29 Nov 2009 by Hafeesh Fazulu  
PB : Chloramphenicol in H.influenza Meningitis. freely penetrates BBB , CSF conc is = unbound drug conc in plasma , 50-75mg/kg/day for 2 weeks , combined use with ampicillin. PB : Chloramphenicol is not used in minor infections ...
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View Post: Drug-Drug Interactions of Triazole Antifungal Agents in ...
30 Jun 2009
histoplasmosis whose antiretroviral regimen included the NNRTÎ efavirenz had undetectable itraconazole plasma concentrations. (<0.05 fig/mL) during treatment with itraconazole capsules at 200 mg/day and 200 mg twice daily and with oral itraconazole .... related ciyptococcal meningitis have been reported during coadmin- istration of fluconazole and rifampin [127]; therefore, an increase in fluconazole dose should be considered when it is administered with rifampin [71]. ...
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View Post: bacterial meningitis in hiv-1-infected patients in the era of ...
11 Jun 2009 by Pat O'Connor  
bacterial meningitis in hiv-1-infected patients in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy. j acquir immune defic syndr. 2009 jun. domingo p, suarez-lozano i, torres f, pomar v, ribera e, galindo mj, cosin j, garcia-alcalde ml, ...
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View Post: Management of Cryptococcal Meningitis in the Antiretroviral ...
3 Dec 2008 by GORAHARA  
Overview. CME Credit Available: 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM Release Date: November 25, 2008 Date of Last Review/Update: November 25, 2008 Expiration Date: November 25, 2009 This Cases on the Web activity introduces a case and ...
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