CCO Independent Conference Coverage
2007 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy*
September 17-20, 2007 | Chicago, Illinois
*CCO is an independent medical education company that provides state-of-the-art medical information to healthcare professionals through conference coverage and other educational programs.
HIV Highlights From ICAAC
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- Joseph J. Eron, Jr., MD
- Joel E. Gallant, MD, MPH
- Trevor Hawkins, MD
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Slideset Module
HIV Highlights
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Joseph J. Eron Jr., MD, reviews the most clinically relevant new data from the 2007 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Discuss investigational regimens for the treatment of antiretroviral-naive HIV-infected patients
- Describe the effect of tropism on HIV disease progression and treatment outcomes
- Recall studies of novel agents, including integrase inhibitors and entry inhibitors, for the management of treatment-experienced patients
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HIV Highlights
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Joseph J. Eron Jr., MD, discusses the highlights from the 2007 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Format: Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) |
File size: 1,009 KB
| Date posted: 10/16/2007
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Expert Highlights
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Joel E. Gallant, MD, MPH, discusses how data presented at ICAAC 2007 may impact decision making on when to begin antiretroviral therapy. (5 minutes)
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Trevor Hawkins, MD, reports on efficacy and safety data presented at ICAAC 2007 on the investigational antiretroviral integrase inhibitors raltegravir and elvitegravir. (8 minutes)
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Joseph J. Eron, Jr., MD, discusses new data presented at ICAAC 2007 from the ARTEMIS study comparing the boosted protease inhibitor darunavir/ritonavir with the fixed-dose protease inhibitor lopinavir/ritonavir. (4 minutes)
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Eric S. Daar, MD, discusses reports on viral tropism and tropism assays and the various types of viral entry inhibitors that were presented at the 2007 ICAAC conference. (12 minutes)
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Capsule Summary:
Raltegravir Plus Optimized Background Regimen Yields Durable Virologic Suppression Through 48 Weeks in Heavily Treatment–Experienced Patients in Phase II Study
Raltegravir was well tolerated and produced favorable virologic and immunologic results in patients with triple-class resistance.
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