Appropriate therapy with antiretroviral agents results in a syndrome characterized by an increased inflammatory response from the recovered immune system to subclinical oppounistic infection. What is this syndrome called as?
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS)- characterized by increased inflammatory response, subclinical oppounistic infections. common in patients with severe CD4 + T-lymphocyte depletion There is fever & worsening of clinical manifestations of oppounistic infection or new manifestations (e.g., enlargement of lymph nodes, pulmonary infiltrates), typically within the 1st few weeks after initiation of antiretroviral therapy.
HIV related hyper- reactivity syndrome
AIDS related inflammatory syndrome
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
CD4 responsive inflammatory syndrome
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