Use the clinical vignette to answer the two questions. Try to answer the first question... then answer the second.
A 50 year old obese HIV positive patient goes to his doctor for a routine checkup. The blood results reveal that his CD4+ count is 349 cells/mm3. Pharmacological treatment is now indicated. He is a known diabetic who has been non-compliant with dietary recommendations and medications.
Which of the following protease inhibitors would be most appropriate for this patient?
a) lopinavir/ritonavir
b) saquinavir/ritonavir
c) atazanavir/ritonavir
d) indinavir/ritonavir
e) none
The doctor also tells the patient that he must always tell any doctor that he is seeing that he is taking this drug because of possible abnormal lab findings. Which of the following parameters is sometimes asymptomatically elevated when taking this drug?
a) hemocrit
b) bilirubin
c) Ca
d) K
e) sedementation rate
A 50 year old obese HIV positive patient goes to his doctor for a routine checkup. The blood results reveal that his CD4+ count is 349 cells/mm3. Pharmacological treatment is now indicated. He is a known diabetic who has been non-compliant with dietary recommendations and medications.
Which of the following protease inhibitors would be most appropriate for this patient?
a) lopinavir/ritonavir
b) saquinavir/ritonavir
c) atazanavir/ritonavir
d) indinavir/ritonavir
e) none
The doctor also tells the patient that he must always tell any doctor that he is seeing that he is taking this drug because of possible abnormal lab findings. Which of the following parameters is sometimes asymptomatically elevated when taking this drug?
a) hemocrit
b) bilirubin
c) Ca
d) K
e) sedementation rate