Manaing HIV. Part 5: Treating secondary outcomes. 5.17 HIV, weight loss and wasting syndrome.
Weight loss in HIV infection can be severe and distressing. Management must address the likely combination of causes by excluding opportunistic infection, monitoring drug effects, palliating diarrhoea, supporting a healthy diet and using drug therapy to improve appetite or weight gain.
Kelly
M D
MD
Inflammation Research Unit, School of Pathology, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Lloyd
A R
AR
Kemp
R J
RJ
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001835:Body Weight; D002100:Cachexia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans