Gaetano Filice

TL;DR: No associations with mortality were found with any circulating miRNAs studied and these results cast doubt onto the effectiveness of circulating miRNA as early predictors of mortality or the major underlying diseases that contribute to mortality in participants treated for HIV-1 infection.

TL;DR: The results of this study show that real‐time SWE is more accurate than TE in assessing significant fibrosis (≥F2) and has the advantage of imaging liver stiffness in real time while guided by a B‐mode image.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the frequency of discontinuation of the first highly active antiretroviral regimen (HAART) and the factors predictive of discontinuing for toxicity and failure in a population-based cohort of HIV-positive individuals in Italy, naive from antirtrovirals at enrolment.

TL;DR: It is shown that hypertension is frequent in HIV patients on HAART and that hypertension appears to be linked to insulin resistance; in particular, hypertension seems to be a part of the metabolic syndrome.

TL;DR: The impact of HIV-induced changes in innate and adaptive immune response and modifications induced by anti-retroviral therapy that may impact on progression of advanced chronic hepatitis B; the association between HBV genotype and clinical course of disease; and the role of occult HBV infection as a co-factor with other causes of liver injury are studied.