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Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups influence lipoatrophy after highly active antiretroviral therapy.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) - 1 Jun 2009
Hendrickson Sher L, Kingsley Lawrence A, Ruiz-Pesini Eduardo, Poole Jason C, Jacobson Lisa P, Palella Frank J, Bream Jay H, Wallace Douglas C, O'Brien Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
Although highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has been extremely effective in lowering AIDS incidence among patients infected with HIV, certain drugs included in HAART can cause serious mitochondrial toxicities. One of the most frequent adverse events is lipoatrophy, which is the loss of subcutaneous fat in the face, arms, buttocks, and/or legs as an adverse reaction to nucleoside reverse transcriptase...
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