A 45-year-old active substance user began getting medical care in your clinic in 1997. He had started taking antiretrovirals (nelfinavir + Combivir) at another facility. Initial labs showed an ...

Treatment of HIV may be based on viral load (VL) or CD4 count. A new randomized controlled trial demonstrates that both approaches are equivalent when it comes to 3-year rates of clinical failure and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with HIV who are obese may be at an increased risk for low CD4 cell counts, according to new research ...

Objective:To predict the effects of a new antiretroviral agent on the costs of care in a US HIV care setting. Methods: Recent data on costs of patient care by CD4 count from 2 US cohorts (the HIV ...

For adults infected with HIV in Thailand a monitoring strategy based on CD4 count (a type of white blood cell) is non-inferior to the recommended monitoring strategy measuring the amount of HIV virus ...

HIV viruses infecting T-lymphocytes, computer illustration. The surface of the T-cell has a lumpy appearance with large irregular surface protrusions. Smaller spherical structures on the cell surface ...

A 15-year study found that HIV-positive individuals had a 40 percent increased risk of ischemic stroke, however stroke rates were nearly the same for HIV-positive individuals with high CD4 cell counts ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Alcohol consumption, high viral load and low CD4 cell count appeared to be independent risk factors for ...

Used in combination with antiretroviral therapy, subcutaneous recombinant interleukin-2 raises CD4+ cell counts more than does antiretroviral therapy alone. The clinical implication of these increases ...

National Institutes of Health researchers shared new details about idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL), a rare immune deficiency that leaves people vulnerable to infectious diseases, autoimmune ...