Effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy on homocysteine plasma concentrations in HIV-1-infected patients.

Objective: To analyze the effect of antiretroviral therapy on homocysteine levels in HIV-1-infected patients.

Design: Observational, prospective study of patients with AIDS.

Methods: We included patients with HIV-1 infection naive for antiretroviral drugs.

[Clinical characteristics and follow-up of patients with AIDS and acute abdominal pain].

Abdominal symptoms frequently affect patients with AIDS. Acute abdominal pain is a diagnostic challenge that may require elective or urgent surgical treatment, although information about the latter is scarce. In this study we analyzed the clinical findings and follow-up of acute abdominal pain complicating patients with AIDS.

Venous thrombosis among patients with AIDS.

Thrombosis has been considered an uncommon complication in patients with AIDS. In a 42-month period, 28 adult male homosexuals with AIDS experienced 34 thrombotic events. All but three received HAART regimen, two a successful round of double nucleoside analog therapy, and one patient received no treatment.