HAART, CMV retinitis, and monitoring
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Amsterdam Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the care of AIDS patients has drastically changed. Patients achieve partial immune reconstitution, appear capable of coming off medication and in many cases do not seem to have recurrences of cytomegalovirus (CMV).12 However, a risk period remains for the first few months after initiating HAART.3 The length of this period remains debatable, as does the best approach to monitor patients …









