Salvage therapy workshop: full reports

Keith Alcorn, Keith Alcorn
Published: 05 March 2001

Two comprehensive reports from the International Salvage Therapy Workshop held last month in Chicago are now available on-line.

A report from Dr Steven Deeks is available at Medscape.com covering the following topics:

  • Multi-drug rescue therapy (mega-HAART)

  • Structured treatment interruptions

  • Pharmacokinetic enhancement of other protease inhibitors with ritonavir

  • Role of adherence in successful salvage therapy

  • Results from clinical trials of salvage regimens

  • Response to salvage therapy in the EuroSIDA cohort

In addition, a report by Dr Harvey Bartnof at HIVandhepatitis.com also covers the following topics:

  • Measuring lactic acid levels

  • Triple protease inhibitor combinations in salvage therapy

  • Responses to indinavir/ritonavir in patients with indinavir-related resistance mutations