Treatment failure in HIV patient is usually marked by virological failure, immunological failure, and clinical deterioration of the patient. Virological failure preceded other faifures and characterized by no decrease in viral load after 48 weeks of antiretroviral treatment. Immunological failure is characterized by CD4 decreased. Factors contributed to the faifure of ARV treatment are adherenc…
Anti Retroviral (ARV) in HIV patients dramatically changed the prognosis of patients with HIV but requires perfect adherence to treatment. Until now the assessment of adherence to ARV treatment is difficult because ideal method of assessment to use in day-ta-day practice is unavallable. In this paper we will describe the role of mean corpuscular volume (MCV) as a method of assessment of adheren…
Thrombotic complications in acute leukemia are often underestimated because bleeding complications generally dominate the clinical picture. While there are many thrombogenic factors shared by both solid tumors and leukemia, many additional prothrombotic feactures are present in leukemia. The prothrombotic factors include hyperleukocytosis, increased expression of tissue factor and its activatio…
Anemia has an important role in morbility and mortality among HIV-AIDS patients. The study of anemia among HIV-ids pattuent in Indonesia was not much done. A cross-sectional study has been done in Teratai Clinic Hasan Sadikin Hospital Bandung to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of anemia in HIV-AIDS patients between 1 January to 30 June 2008. There were 534 HIV-AIDS patients, anemia occ…