{"title":"Male circumcision could be even greater boon than thought.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50834,"journal":{"name":"Aids Reader","volume":"18 11","pages":"553"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27884242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian Boyle, Cal Cohen, Edwin DeJesus, Richard Elion, Ian Frank, Graeme Moyle, Paul Sax
{"title":"Antiretroviral treatment update from the 17th International AIDS Conference.","authors":"Brian Boyle, Cal Cohen, Edwin DeJesus, Richard Elion, Ian Frank, Graeme Moyle, Paul Sax","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50834,"journal":{"name":"Aids Reader","volume":"18 11","pages":"570-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27884246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HIV prevention and testing: update from the 17th International AIDS Conference.","authors":"William M Valenti","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50834,"journal":{"name":"Aids Reader","volume":"18 9","pages":"490-2, C3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27705696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial comment: a plethora or options in multidrug-resistant HIV-1 infection.","authors":"David A Katzenstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50834,"journal":{"name":"Aids Reader","volume":"18 9","pages":"478-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27705694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karen M Goldstein, Stephen Gluckman, Karam Mounzer
{"title":"Challenge of coadministering antiretroviral therapy and oral anticoagulants in HIV-positive patients.","authors":"Karen M Goldstein, Stephen Gluckman, Karam Mounzer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With an improved life expectancy, HIV-positive patients now face interactions between antiretroviral therapy and medications for chronic medical problems. One example is thromboembolism and its treatment with oral anticoagulants. To date, there have been 9 case reports documenting drug interactions between oral anticoagulants and antiretroviral agents. We conducted a retrospective case series to better understand the challenges of anticoagulation management in HIV-positive patients receiving antiretroviral therapy. Of the 9 cases evaluated, the median percentage of international normalized ratio (INR) measurements of blood clotting time within the therapeutic range was 28.6%. Of those INRs outside the therapeutic range, 50.5% were subtherapeutic and 21.2% were supratherapeutic. A heightened awareness of the potential difficulty in achieving adequate anticoagulation in patients on antiretroviral regimens is warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":50834,"journal":{"name":"Aids Reader","volume":"18 9","pages":"480-2, 486-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27705695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}