AIDS Treatment News logo      

September 17, 2009

A Retrospective Analysis of AIDS-Associated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Patients With Undetectable HIV Viral Loads and CD4 Counts Greater Than 300 cells/mm3

"Conclusions: In the highly active antiretroviral (HAART) era, a substantial proportion of patients with KS had undetectable HIV VLs and CD4 counts greater than the level typically associated with opportunistic diseases. They required systemic therapy to control their KS but were significantly less likely to die and demonstrated a trend toward better 15-year survival than patients having KS with lesser CD4 counts and detectable HIV VLs."

Read more in Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (JIAPAC), September 1, 2009.

0 comments: