Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Key Takeaways CD4 counts show how strong your immune system is; lower counts mean a ...

A review found that CD4/CD8 ratio could be used as a prognostic marker for mortality in patients with HIV, though future studies need to be done to confirm these findings. Clinical practices can ...

People with advanced HIV initiating bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (B/F/TAF) were more likely to reach CD4 cell count levels of 200 cells/mcL or ...

Idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL) is a clinical syndrome that is defined by CD4 lymphopenia of less than 300 cells per cubic millimeter in the absence of any primary or acquired cause of ...

The decrease in CD4 cells during HIV infection seems to be driven by immune activation, which does not always correlate with viral load. Experienced clinicians are all too familiar with the ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have reported evidence that standard chemotherapeutic drugs may selectively suppress ...

In a person living with HIV, proviruses—strands of HIV DNA—are typically integrated into the T cell genome and become a ...

Background Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis-related hepatocellular carcinoma (MASH-HCC) has been reported to be less responsive to immune checkpoint inhibitors, which may be associated ...