Buehlmann, Manuela; Chave, Jean-Philippe; Flepp, Markus; Schiffer, Veronique; Keiser, Olivia; Furrer, Hansjakob (2006). Tenofovir-containing nucleoside/nucleotide-only antiretroviral maintenance therapy: decision making and virological outcome. HIV clinical trials, 7(2), pp. 48-54. St. Louis, Mo.: Thomas Land Publishers 10.1310/D0WD-ARAU-U1EF-30MM
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)OBJECTIVE: To assess the virological outcome of patients with undetectable human immunodeficiency (HI) viremia switched to tenofovir (TDF)-containing nucleosideonly (NUKE-only) treatments and to investigate the factors influencing the physicians' decision for application of a nonestablished therapy. METHOD: Patients' characteristics and history were taken from the cohort database. To study the decision-making process, questionnaires were sent to all treating physicians. RESULTS: 49 patients were changed to TDF-containing NUKE-only treatment and 46 had a follow-up measurement of HI viremia. Virological failure occurred in 16 (35%) patients. Virological failure was associated with previous mono or dual therapy and with a regimen including didanosine or abacavir. No failure occurred in 15 patients without these predisposing factors. The main reasons for change to TDF-containing NUKE-only treatment were side effects and presumed favorable toxicity profile. The rationale behind this decision was mainly analogy to the zidovudine/lamivudine/abacavir maintenance therapy. CONCLUSION: TDF-containing NUKE-only treatment is associated with high early failure rates in patients with previous nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor mono or dual therapy and in drug combinations containing didanosine or abacavir but not in patients without these predisposing factors. In HIV medicine, treatment strategies that are not evidence-based are followed by a minority of experienced physicians and are driven by patients' needs, mainly to minimize treatment side effects.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Infectiology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Furrer, Hansjakob |
ISSN: |
1528-4336 |
ISBN: |
16798619 |
Publisher: |
Thomas Land Publishers |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Factscience Import |
Date Deposited: |
04 Oct 2013 14:45 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:14 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1310/D0WD-ARAU-U1EF-30MM |
PubMed ID: |
16798619 |
Web of Science ID: |
000238641400002 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/18800 (FactScience: 1038) |
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