The authors recommended prophylaxis or screening for subclinical MAC infection before beginning protease inhibitor therapy in people with advanced HIV disease. Shorter TB treatment works. More on the herpes-HIV link. The authors suspect that subclinical reactivation of HSV can speed progression of HIV disease. One reason this analysis found more resistance than previous studies, Jabs offered, was that he assessed fresh rather than frozen isolates.
Antisense injection holds off retinitis.
Progression was evaluated by blinded reading of fundus photographs. Fomivirsen, which is injected intravitreally, increased intraocular pressure in 18.5 percent of patients and was associated with vitritis in 7.4 percent. John Chandler, MD, of Isis Pharmaceuticals, reported no cases of retinal detachment.