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The deep-plane facelift as a treatment modality for antiretroviral therapy induced cervicofacial lipodystrophy
2022-10-28
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PURPOSE Highly Active Anti Retroviral Therapy (HAART) has become an effective treatment modality to reduce HIV-infection to an undetectable viral load. These antiretroviral agents may, however, cause severe morbidity by inducing the syndrome of lipodystrophy. In the head and neck region antiretroviral agents generate an obtuse heavy neck in combination with an accelerated pattern of midfacial atrophy and ptosis....
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- Literature Corpus work
- bef458f0-b7f2-5c8a-82fd-e49f19fe6404
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2169803/v1