What Is the CD4:CD8 Ratio Test Used For? CD4 and CD8 are two types of white blood cells in your blood. White blood cells help your body fight infections. If you have HIV infection, your doctor may use ...
In wealthy countries, antiretroviral therapy (ART) has transformed AIDS into an often-manageable chronic condition, as patients can receive both the therapeutics and the constant monitoring that ...
Preliminary findings in this week's issue of THE LANCET suggest that a simple enzyme-based procedure to measure CD4+ lymphocytes-important in assessing individuals' responses to antiretroviral ...
A 45-year-old active substance user began getting medical care in your clinic in 1997. He had started taking antiretrovirals (nelfinavir + Combivir) at another facility. Initial labs showed an ...
The authors compared the CD4+ T-cell counts and HIV-1 RNA viral loads of 383 patients who were either mono-infected with HIV or co-infected with HTLV-1/HIV. They confirmed that co-infected patients ...
Idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL) is a clinical syndrome that is defined by CD4 lymphopenia of less than 300 cells per cubic millimeter in the absence of any primary or acquired cause of ...