HIV/AIDS Therapy

Drug levels in untimed plasma samples predict treatment outcome in advanced HIV patients

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 29th, 2003

Antiretroviral drug levels in untimed plasma samples can predict treatment outcomes in patients with advanced HIV infection.

C.S. Alexander and colleagues at the University of British Columbia conducted a study "to examine the relationship between untimed antiretroviral concentrations measured in plasma samples collected for virus-load testing and response to highly active antiretroviral therapy."

"Plasma nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor and protease inhibitor concentrations were retrospectively measured in all virus-load plasma samples collected during the first year of therapy, for 122 patients in British Columbia, Canada, who...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2003-09-29)

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