AIDS Therapies

Toxicity from Ritonavir Overdose Similar to Side Effects

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 4th, 2000

An accidental overdose of Ritonavir (RTV) in an HIV infected patient showed that toxicity effects were similar to chronic side effects and manageable without interventional therapy.

"The number of drugs used and the complexity of drug schedule in HIV patients may contribute to morbidity due to accidental errors," said F. Di Candilo and colleagues from the University of Perugia, Italy.

In a presentation to the 10th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, held in Stockholm, Sweden, Di Candilo et al. discussed a case of accidental RTV overdose in an HIV patient on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The title of...

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