Salvage therapy workshop: full reports

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