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Idiopathic AIDS enteropathy and treatment of gastrointestinal opportunistic pathogens. [PDF]

, 2009
Diarrhea in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has proven to be both a diagnostic and treatment challenge since the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) virus more than 30 years ago.
Cello, John P, Day, Lukejohn W
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Prevalence, correlates and under-diagnosis of clinical depression among adults on highly active antiretroviral therapy in a Tertiary Health Institution in northeastern Nigeria

Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2014
Clinical depression is a highly debilitating illness, which is often under-diagnosed and negatively impacts on the quality of life of its sufferers. When it co-exists with other medical conditions, its effect is even more incapacitating.
Abdu Wakawa Ibrahim, Mohammed Said Jidda, Musa Abba Wakil, Isa Bukar Rabbebe, Asuku Beida Omeiza, Haruna Yusuph, Adegboyega Ogunlesi, Umar Garba Suleiman   +7 more
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Opportunistic infection as a cause of transient viremia in chronically infected HIV patients under treatment with HAART

, 2004
When highly active antiretroviral therapy is administered for long periods of time to HIV-1 infected patients, most patients achieve viral loads that are ``undetectable'' by standard assay (i.e., HIV-1 RNA $ < 50$ copies/ml).
Jones, Laura E., Perelson, Alan S.
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Nurse led care [PDF]

, 2005
What's the difference between medical and nursing care? The answer is not straightforward, but shortages in the medical workforce mean that nurses are increasingly called on to undertake work that was previously done by doctors (such as undertaking ...
Cullum, N, Richardson, G, Spilsbury, K
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Mapping opioid exposure through prescription data and postmortem analysis of opioid drugs in multiple tissues

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background and Purpose Although opioids are central to end of life (EoL) care, tissue‐level opioid exposure remains poorly understood. The objective of this study was to characterize the relationship between prescription‐derived morphine equivalent daily dose (MEDD) and measured morphine concentrations across multiple organs.
Niamh Higgins, Alan Wells, Nimish Patel, Nicole Muttera, Mattia Trunfio, Alessandra Manca, Amedeo De Nicolò, Micol Ferrara, Stefano Bonora, Jessica Cusato, Alice Palermiti, Antonio D'Avolio, Marissa Borochoff, Patricia K. Riggs, Elizabeth Hastie, Rabia S. Atayee, Stephanie Solso, Cheryl Dullano, Vanessa Gomez‐Moreno, Tara Tenenbaum, Robert Deiss, Davey M. Smith, Antoine Chaillon, Sara Gianella   +23 more
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Cost analysis of initial highly active antiretroviral therapy regimens for managing human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients according to clinical practice in a hospital setting

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2013
Giorgio L Colombo,1,2 Antonella Castagna,3 Sergio Di Matteo,2 Laura Galli,3 Giacomo Bruno,2 Andrea Poli,3 Stefania Salpietro,3 Alessia Carbone,3 Adriano Lazzarin3,41Department of Drug Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pavia, Italy; 2Studi ...
Colombo GL, Castagna A, Di Matteo S, Galli L, Bruno G, Poli A, Salpietro S, Carbone A, Lazzarin A   +8 more
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Drug-Drug Interactions Among Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Medications [PDF]

, 2015
One-fourth of individuals diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus concomitantly have the hepatitis C virus infection. Since the discovery of highly active antiretroviral therapy, liver complications have become the leading cause of morbidity and ...
Gandhi, Mona A., Kaur, Kirpal, Slish, Judianne   +2 more
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PrEP at the site of action in cisgender and transgender women: A pharmacology study of blood and rectal CD4+ lymphocytes

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background Female sex hormones used in feminizing hormone therapy (FHT) may influence activation and persistence of HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medications. The clinical relevance of this interaction remains unclear, particularly for transgender and cisgender women (TGW and CGW).
Elizabeth Hastie, Megha Srivasta, Edward R. Cachay, Leah Burke, Sara Gianella, Stephen Rawlings, Frank Z. Stanczyk, Craig Sykes, Angela D. M. Kashuba, Jill Blumenthal, Mackenzie L. Cottrell   +10 more
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Unintended Consequences of Life‐Saving Pharmaceutical Innovations: How HAART Led to the Resurgence of Syphilis

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection that can lead to serious health complications, was almost eliminated in the United States by 2000. But since then, its incidence began to increase, recently reaching a 60‐year peak. We suggest that the introduction of the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) drug regimen, which transformed HIV
David Beheshti, Scott Cunningham, Nir Eilam   +2 more
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Lipodystrophy and metabolic parameters of people living with HIV

DST, 2018
Introduction: Since the earliest reported cases in the United States, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) remains one of the major challenges to global health.
Labibe do Socorro Haber de Menezes, Khayro Lima dos Reis, Michel Douglas Silva de Sousa, Diego de Aviz Gonçalves, Manfried Cleiton Mendes Rocha, Rosana Maria Feio Libonati   +5 more
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