salvage regimen

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AIDS treatment

  • HIV/AIDS; retrovirus
    In AIDS: Antiretroviral medications

    …which is known as a salvage regimen, to the patient. Salvage regimens often entail multiple drug rescue therapy (MDRT), or mega-HAART, the use of between five and nine different drugs, including RT and protease inhibitors and sometimes hydroxyurea.

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