… immunodeficiency virus 1 infection and degree of immunosuppression in the clinical characteristics and outcome of infective endocarditis in intravenous drug users

E Ribera, JM Miró, E Cortés, A Cruceta… - Archives of internal …, 1998 - jamanetwork.com
… HIV-infected and HIV-noninfected users with IE. The small number of patients … drug users
with IE to analyze more clearly the influence of HIV infection and degree of immunosuppression

Clinical implications of addiction related immunosuppression

AS Reece - Journal of Infection, 2008 - Elsevier
… results in a degree of immunosuppression, the reduction in the … immunosuppressed patients,
and with the frequent remark of drug users, that “I never got sick until I stopped using drugs.” …

Infective endocarditis in injection drug users: importance of human immunodeficiency virus serostatus and degree of immunosuppression

JJ Pulvirenti, E Kerns, C Benson… - Clinical infectious …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
… We hypothesized that the degree of immunosuppression … cases of IE in injection drug users.
One hundred two patients … and HIV-seronegative injection drug users (IDUs) with infective …

Immunosuppressive drugs and cancer

T Vial, J Descotes - Toxicology, 2003 - Elsevier
… the degree of immunosuppression, are the most relevant to determining risk. Whether a
specific immunosuppressive drug … the use of triple or quadruple immunosuppressive regimens. …

… , Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and immunosuppression increase risk of bacterial pneumonia in human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive injection drug users.

WT Caiaffa, D Vlahov, NM Graham… - American journal of …, 1994 - atsjournals.org
… These caveats notwithstanding, we conclude that other routes of administration of illicit
drugs in HIV-infected injection drug users may be associated with a higher risk of bacterial …

The increased frequency of cervical dysplasia-neoplasia in women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus is related to the degree of immunosuppression

A Schäfer, W Friedmann, M Mielke… - American journal of …, 1991 - Elsevier
… dysplasia and degree of human immunodeficiency virus-induced immunosuppression. …
findings in 76 female intravenous drug users negative for human immunodeficiency virus …

Immunosuppressive effects of opioids—clinical relevance

A Brack, HL Rittner, C Stein - Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 2011 - Springer
… , and on intravenous drug users (IDUs). It should be kept in mind that infections are not the
only clinically relevant endpoint of opioid-induced immunosuppression. While not considered …

[PDF][PDF] Defining the outcome of immunosuppression withdrawal after liver transplantation

J Devlin, D Doherty, L Thomson, T Wong… - …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
… The potential benefit of a degree of HLA matching in successful immunosuppression
withdrawal should not be overemphasized at present, given the comparatively small study …

Prevention of infection caused by immunosuppressive drugs in gastroenterology

K Orlicka, E Barnes, EL Culver - Therapeutic advances in …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
… a high degree of … immunosuppression has not been widely adopted and many physicians
will base HIV screening upon risk factors, such as sexual behaviour and intravenous drug use. …

Oral lesions as markers of severe immunosuppression in HIV-infected homosexual men and injection drug users

MD Begg, KS Panageas, D Mitchell-Lewis… - Oral Surgery, Oral …, 1996 - Elsevier
… For injection drug users, strong correlations were observed … drug users, monitoring a larger
number of lesions neither improves nor reduces the correlation to severe immunosuppression