Biomarkers could predict death in AIDS patients with severe inflammation
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 14:50
in Health & Medicine
A study in this week's PLoS Medicine suggests that AIDS patients with cryptococcal meningitis who start HIV therapy are predisposed to immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) - an exaggerated inflammatory immune response that kills up to one-third of affected people - if they have biomarkers (biochemicals) in their blood showing evidence of a damaged immune system that is not capable of clearing the fungal infection...
