HAART

abbr.

highly active antiretroviral therapy

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Noun

HAART - a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV

drug cocktail, highly active antiretroviral therapy

medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

NNRTI, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor - an antiviral drug used against HIV; binds directly to reverse transcriptase and prevents RNA conversion to DNA; often used in combination with other drugs

NRTI, nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor - an antiviral drug used against HIV; is incorporated into the DNA of the virus and stops the building process; results in incomplete DNA that cannot create a new virus; often used in combination with other drugs

protease inhibitor, PI - an antiviral drug used against HIV; interrupts HIV replication by binding and blocking HIV protease; often used in combination with other drugs

Translations

HAART

abbr highly active antiretroviral therapy. V. therapy.

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References in periodicals archive

Chemotherapy commenced 4 weeks after the initiation of HAART, which was continued indefinitely in HIV-positive patients together with daily co-trimoxazole prophylaxis.

Kaposi's sarcoma: Good outcome with doxorubicin, bleomycin and vincristine sulphate (ABV) chemotherapy and highly active antiretroviral therapy

However, in order for HAART to be successful, adherence is crucial and is strictly associated with virologic suppression.

Quality of life, anxiety and depression in patients with HIV/AIDS who present poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy: a cross-sectional study in Salvador, Brazil

The introduction of HAART provided HIV/AIDS patients with opportunity for quality of life improvement by inhibiting disease progression and development of opportunistic infections [4,5].

Lipodystrophy among HIV-infected Patients Attending Care and Treatment Clinics in Dar es Salaam

Objective improvement in the colonic lesions based on serial colonoscopies with improved compliance with HAART therapy precluded the need for CMV-directed therapy.

Overt Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Pseudotumor: A Rare Presentation of Cytomegalovirus Infection

IRIS is likely to occur in patients who have high viral loads and low CD4 cardinality (<50/[micro]L) before HAART, with a rapid decline in the viral load and a fast increase in CD4 counts after HAART.

Nuclear Factor of Activated T Cells and Cytokines Gene Expression of the T Cells in AIDS Patients with Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome during Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

Our subjects included 208 HIV HAART and 176 HIV HAART naive patients.

Body Mass Index, Haemoglobin, and Total Lymphocyte Count as a Surrogate for CD4 Count in Resource Limited Settings

has announced the first commercial implantation of its HAART 300 Aortic Annuloplasty Device in Europe.

First European Procedures Performed Using BioStable's HAART 300 Aortic Annuloplasty Device

HAART has dramatically reduced morbidity and mortality worldwide however a 3 fold increased rate of mortality within the first 12 months of post HAART initiation.

A study of bone marrow changes in human immunodefeciency virus infection

A total of 333 HIV patients on HAART for 3-6 months were recruited for this study.

Cryptococcus neoformans infection among human immunodeficiency virus patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy in Benin City, Nigeria

More recently, HAART has emerged as a strategy for TB prevention in HIV-infected populations.

Tuberculosis in HIV-infected persons in British Columbia during the HAART era

The number of HIV-infected women reaching menopause and older age is expected to increase due to improved survival on HAART. To date, there have only been limited studies which focused on SIL in HIV-infected menopausal women.

Effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and menopause on risk of progression of cervical dysplasia in Human Immune-Deficiency Virus- (HIV-) infected women

To provide information for disease-reduction efforts and to improve survival among persons with TB-HIV, we retrospectively reviewed all incident TB-HIV cases in a 16-year period in California during which dynamic changes occurred in the HIV epidemic as a consequence of the introduction of HAART.

Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection, California, USA, 1993-2008