BACKGROUND: Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has improved the prognosis of HIV-infected patients. We studied the changes in the incidence and prognosis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease preceding and during the first few years of HAART in a clinic cohort. PATIENTS AND METHODS: All patients with CMV disease diagnosed between 1993 and 1999 from a clinic cohort in Cologne, Germany, were included. The patients were followed until death or until December 31, 2001. The time period from 1993-1996 was classified as pre-HAART, the period from 1997-1999 as the HAART era. Survival was analyzed with a Cox-proportional hazard model. RESULTS: From a total of 1,279 HIV-infected patients, 127 patients with CMV disease were enrolled. The incidence of CMV disease declined rapidly and significantly from 7.34 cases per 100 patient years (py) in the pre-HAART era to 0.75 cases per 100 py in the HAART era. The median survival time in the pre-HAART era was 9.5 months; the median survival was not yet reached at 4 years of follow-up in the HAART era. The only risk factors influencing survival were CD4-cell count and antiretroviral therapy before and after diagnosis of CMV disease. Treatment naive patients had a better prognosis than pretreated patients and patients treated with triple combination therapy survived longer than patients with other treatment modalities. CONCLUSION: A rapid decline in the incidence of new CMV manifestations and a better prognosis of patients with CMV disease, especially if they were treatment naive and treated with triple combination therapy, were observed in the HAART era.
BACKGROUND: Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has improved the prognosis of HIV-infectedpatients. We studied the changes in the incidence and prognosis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease preceding and during the first few years of HAART in a clinic cohort. PATIENTS AND METHODS: All patients with CMV disease diagnosed between 1993 and 1999 from a clinic cohort in Cologne, Germany, were included. The patients were followed until death or until December 31, 2001. The time period from 1993-1996 was classified as pre-HAART, the period from 1997-1999 as the HAART era. Survival was analyzed with a Cox-proportional hazard model. RESULTS: From a total of 1,279 HIV-infectedpatients, 127 patients with CMV disease were enrolled. The incidence of CMV disease declined rapidly and significantly from 7.34 cases per 100 patient years (py) in the pre-HAART era to 0.75 cases per 100 py in the HAART era. The median survival time in the pre-HAART era was 9.5 months; the median survival was not yet reached at 4 years of follow-up in the HAART era. The only risk factors influencing survival were CD4-cell count and antiretroviral therapy before and after diagnosis of CMV disease. Treatment naive patients had a better prognosis than pretreated patients and patients treated with triple combination therapy survived longer than patients with other treatment modalities. CONCLUSION: A rapid decline in the incidence of new CMV manifestations and a better prognosis of patients with CMV disease, especially if they were treatment naive and treated with triple combination therapy, were observed in the HAART era.
Authors: E Schaftenaar; N S Khosa; G S Baarsma; C Meenken; J A McINTYRE; A D M E Osterhaus; G M G M Verjans; R P H Peters Journal: Epidemiol Infect Date: 2017-05-19 Impact factor: 4.434