Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The widespread use of highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has drastically improved the life expectancy of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. However, many of these drugs show multiple interactions with other treatments; protease inhibitors (PI) are especially troublesome as they interact with the hepatic cytochrome P450. There have been previous reports of both Cushing’s syndrome and adrenal insufficiency in patients treated...