AIDS-defining disease

AIDS-Defining Disease

A disease which, when accompanied by evidence of HIV infection, fulfills the criteria necessary to diagnose AIDS. AIDS-defining diseases include Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia, Mycobacterium avium complex, AIDS dementia complex, AIDS wasting syndrome, invasive cervical cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma, and CMV retinitis.

AIDS-defining disease

A disease which, when accompanied by evidence of HIV infection, fulfills the criteria necessary to diagnose AIDS PCP, MAC, AIDS dementia complex, AIDS wasting syndrome, Kaposi's sarcoma, CMV retinitis. See AIDS dementia complex, AIDS wasting syndrome, CMV retinitis, Kaposi sarcoma, Mycobacterium avium complex, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.

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Starting cART while participating in an ART naive clinical trial, baseline CD4+T lymphocyte count (cells/[micro]L), baseline HIV viral load ([log.sub.10] copies/mL) and AIDS-defining disease were also accessed.

Incidence rate of modifying or discontinuing first combined antiretroviral therapy regimen due to toxicity during the first year of treatment stratified by age

She was diagnosed with HIV in 2009 when she presented with severe mucocutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) as her AIDS-defining disease. She was pregnant at the time of her initial diagnosis, and received 4 cycles of bleomycin/vincristine chemotherapy after delivering a healthy term infant.

Managing AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma and pregnancy

Throughout the trial, any mother whose CD4 count fell below 250 cells per [mu]l or who developed an AIDS-defining disease was referred for treatment.

Antiretroviral therapy given to mother or child reduces risk of hiv transmission from breast-feeding

The delayed group experienced a shorter time to a primary clinical event, including AIDS-defining disease and all types of tuberculosis.

Early HIV treatment offers additional benefits

One of the controversies in this field is the question of whether DVT in the patient infected with HIV should be considered an AIDS-defining disease. Our approach is that it should be.

HIV and venous thrombotic events

[less than or equal to] 3.4 (2.0-5.7) < 0.001 10 years) AIDS-defining disease 0.7 (0.5-1.0) 0.06 (vs.

Prevalence and factors associated with darunavir resistance mutations in multi-experienced HIV-1-infected patients failing other protease inhibitors in a referral teaching center in Brazil

The presence of high CD4 counts and of polyclonal lymphomas, and the absence of Epstein-Bar virus infection and of AIDS-defining disease before diagnosis are associated with improved survival of these patients [2,10,11,16-19].

Clinical, endoscopic and prognostic aspects of primary gastric non-Hodgkin's lymphoma associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Whereas AIDS-defining diseases pose a greater threat when the CD4 count falls below 200 cells/[mm.sup.3], non-AIDS diseases often threaten HIV-infected people at higher CD4 counts.

How does CD4 count affect risk of non-AIDS diagnoses and death?

KS, he notes, is seen mostly in gay men, while "weight loss and tuberculosis predominate in intravenous drug users, and pneumonia and candidiasis are almost the only two of the 30 AIDS-defining diseases that are diagnosed in hemophiliacs." [24]

Answering the AIDS Denialists: Is AIDS Real?

The real question was: How many AIDS-defining diseases were to be found in the HIV-negative cohort?

What causes AIDS?: the debate continues

START aims to assess the impact of earlier ART not only on AIDS-defining diseases, but also on cardiovascular, liver, and kidney disease and mortality from any cause.

What the HIV community thinks about when to start--and START

They did not compare otherwise similar persons who differ only in HIV status, did not control effectively for drug use, and did not fully report the incidence of AIDS-defining diseases in the HIV-negative men.