Long term visual outcome of patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 853-855

  Goldberg, D E ^a   Wang, H ^b   Azen, S P ^b   Freeman, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CIDOFOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; EYE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALING; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINITIS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CATARACT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR EDEMA, CYSTOID; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL DETACHMENT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0038798794     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.7.853     Document Type: Article

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