Is It Safe to Discontinue Primary Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Patients with Virologically Suppressed HIV Infection and a CD4 Cell Count <200 Cells/μL?
Is It Safe to Discontinue Primary Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Patients with Virologically Suppressed HIV Infection and a CD4 Cell Count <200 Cells/μL?
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DOI:
10.1086/655761
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发表时间:
2010-09-01
影响因子:
11.8
通讯作者:
Furrer, Hansjakob
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作者:
Furrer, Hansjakob
Background. Current guidelines suggest that primary prophylaxis for Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PcP) can be safely stopped in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients who are receiving combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) and who have a CD4 cell count >200 cells/mu L. There are few data regarding the incidence of PcP or safety of stopping prophylaxis in virologically suppressed patients with CD4 cell counts of 101-200 cells/mu L.Methods. The Opportunistic Infections Project Team of the Collaboration of Observational HIV Epidemiological Research in Europe (COHERE) included data from 23,412 patients from 12 European cohorts who started taking cART after 1997. Poisson regression was used to model incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of primary PcP.Results. There were 253 PcP cases during 107,016 person-years of follow-up (PYFU). Prophylaxis significantly reduced the incidence of PcP among patients with current CD4 cell counts