Genotypic Drug Resistance and Cause of Death in HIV-Infected Persons Who Died in 1999
作者:
Nele Beinker,
Douglas Mayers,
Christoph Lange,
Hernan Valdez,
Jodi Sitkins,
Lori Lemonnier,
Tanvir Chowdhry,
Michael Lederman,
期刊:
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
(OVID Available online 2001)
卷期:
Volume 28,
issue 3
页码: 250-253
ISSN:1525-4135
年代: 2001
出版商: OVID
关键词: Causes of death;Drug resistance;Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART);HIV
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
We analyzed the relationship between viral drug resistance and causes of death in 29 HIV-1–infected patients who had been followed in an HIV-outpatient clinic and died in 1999. Six patients (21%) died with plasma HIV-RNA levels <1000 copies/ml. Seven (24%) died with wild-type (WT) virus in plasma, 6 (21%) had reverse transcriptase (RT) mutations only, 10 (34%) had multidrug-resistant (MDR) virus. The causes of death were not differently distributed among these groups; however, 8 of 16 patients (50%) with resistant viruses died of end-organ failure versus 2 of 7 patients (29%) with WT virus. Seventeen of 32 patients (53%) were thought by their physicians to be noncompliant with prescribed therapy. Major resistance mutations to antiretroviral drugs were present in viruses from at least 55% of our HIV-1–infected patients who died in 1999. Nonetheless, deaths also occurred among patients with well-controlled HIV infection and among patients with WT virus in plasma. Infections related to incomplete immune restoration, inability to maintain suppressive antiretroviral drug levels, and end-organ failures all contribute to mortalities in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy.
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