… patients, overtaking opportunistic infections as leading causes of death … HIV-infected
patients in the United States [6] . Patients with HIV are at risk for kidney disease related to HIV-…

… evolution in patients carrying 215 HIV-1 mutants who failed to respond to HAART regimens
by correlating the occurrence of 215 revertants in baseline sequence of therapy-naïve, HIV-1-…

… HIV virologic failure prediction rule, which stratifies patient risk for experiencing virologic
failure … Clinical predictors of virologic failure include suboptimal adherence, a CD4 cell count <…

… of treatment failure. There was a 10-fold increase in CD4+ cell counts in the patients treated
with … patients, with 68.4% of patients showing undetectable HIV RNA copies after 6 months. …

… All patients with virologic failure with HIV RNA levels >1000 copies/ml should have drug
resistance testing performed, while resistance testing can be considered between 500 and 1000 …

… Despite huge advances in terms of the impact of antiretroviral therapy on HIV-related morbidity
and mortality patients continue to fail therapy. We discuss the reasons why failure occurs …

… in critically ill HIV patients is … HIV patients are not known to be HIV infected at the time of
ICU admission, the clinicians should keep a low threshold for requesting HIV testing for patients …

… This study identified factors associated with virologic failure. Further studies are needed
to … patients at high risk of failure, and to design interventions aimed to reduce this risk. …

… 80% of HIV people are active or past drug abusers, most patients not eligible for HIV therapy
were … So, after their first visit at our clinic, we recommended that these patients be followed …

… In conclusion, these findings demonstrate that HIV-infected patients established on ART for
… week remain important predictors of virologic failure that should trigger intensified adherence …