• SAGE open medicine · Jan 2016

    Experience of dolutegravir in HIV-infected treatment-naive patients from a tertiary care University Hospital in Ireland.

    • Sarmad Waqas, Mairead O'Connor, Ciara Levey, Paddy Mallon, Gerard Sheehan, Anjali Patel, Gordana Avramovic, and John S Lambert.
    • Infectious Diseases Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
    • SAGE Open Med. 2016 Jan 1; 4: 2050312116675813.

    ObjectiveDolutegravir, an HIV integrase inhibitor, is a relatively new treatment option. To assess the tolerability, side effects, and time to viral decline to non-detectable in patients newly started on dolutegravir.MethodsRetrospective health care record of 61 consecutive HIV treatment-naive patients started on dolutegravir was reviewed and analysed on SPSS.ResultsThe mean initial viral load was 160826.05 copies/mL (range, 79-1,126,617 copies/mL). HIV viral load became non-detectable in 63.9% of patients on dolutegravir within 3 months. In all, 60.7% of patients reported no side effects on dolutegravir; 98.4% of the patients claimed full compliance to their antiretrovirals.ConclusionDolutegravir was found to be efficacious and well tolerated in HIV-infected treatment-naive patients.

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