Oral ganciclovir for cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with AIDS: Results of two randomized studies

AIDS, Supplement

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages

  Squires, Kathleen E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; CMV retinitis; CMV treatment; Oral ganciclovir

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION BODY DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINITIS; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VISION TEST; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0030454921     PISSN: 13502840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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4. Squires KE, Stemplen MJ, Shadman A, Buhles WC: Oral ganciclovir versus intravenous ganciclovir maintenance therapy for cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in patients with Aids. First National Conference on Human Retroviruses and Related Infections. Washington Dc, 1993. [abstract 540].