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ArticleScientific reports2019

Survival of HIV/HCV co-infected patients before introduction of HCV direct acting antivirals (DAA).

L Dold, C Schwarze-Zander, C Boesecke, R Mohr, B Langhans, J-C Wasmuth, C P Strassburg, J K Rockstroh, U Spengler

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

L DoldDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Leona.Dold@ukbonn.de.
C Schwarze-ZanderDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
C BoeseckeDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
R MohrDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
B LanghansDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
J-C WasmuthDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
C P StrassburgDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
J K RockstrohDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
U SpenglerDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
University of Bonn · DEGerman Center for Infection Research · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

HIV/HCV infection is supposed to substantially reduce survival as compared to HIV mono-infection. Here, we compared longtime-survival and causes of death in a cohort of HIV- and HIV/HCV-co-infected patients on combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), before introduction of HCV direct acting antivirals (DAA). 322 Caucasian patients with HIV (n = 176) and HIV/HCV-infection (n = 146) were enrolled into this study. All patients were recruited between 2003 and 2004 and followed until 01.01.2014. We compared overall survival between the two groups by the Kaplan-Meyer method and identified independent factors associated with long-time survival by conditional Cox regression analysis. In total 46 (14.3%) patients died during the observation period (HIV infection: n = 23 (13.1%), HIV/HCV infection: n = 23 (15.8%) but overall-survival did not differ significantly between HIV/HCV-infected and HIV mono-infected patients (p = 0.619). Survival was substantially better in patients with complete suppression of HIV replication below the level of detection than in those with residual viremia (p = 0.001). Age (p = 0.008), γ-glutamyltranspeptidase (p < 0.0001) and bilirubin (p = 0.008) were significant predictors of survival irrespective from HCV co-infection. Complete repression of HIV replication on cART is the key factor determining survival both in HIV- and HIV/HCV-co-infected patients, while HCV co-infection and therapy without DAAs seem to affect survival to a lesser extent. Thus, patients with HIV/HCV co-infection require particularly intensive cART.

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