@article{316307897b414353993cf1450d7c46c4,
title = "Influence of filgrastim (granulocyte colony-stimulating factor) on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA in patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis",
abstract = "Filgrastim, or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, reverses neutropenia associated with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections. During a trial of anti-CMV retinitis therapies coadministered with antiretroviral therapy, 2-4 plasma specimens of HIV-1 RNA were collected from 36 HIV-1-infected patients receiving filgrastim to prevent neutropenia and from 36 patients not receiving filgrastim. For both groups, the crude mean and mean rate of change of HIV-1 log10 RNA levels were similar. Adjustment for covariates (CD4+ T cell lymphocytes, virus load at enrollment, level of neutropenia and antiretroviral therapy [mainly non-highly active antiretroviral therapy], and anti-CMV therapy during follow-up) resulted in a mean log10 HIV-1 RNA level for individuals receiving filgrastim versus those not receiving the drug of 5.11 versus 4.87 (P = .12) and respective log mean rates of change per month of -0.08 versus -0.21 (P = .08). This latter difference has borderline statistical significance, which suggests that filgrastim may reduce the decline of HIV-1 RNA loads.",
author = "{Studies of Ocular Complications of AIDS (SOCA) Research Group} and Michael Davidson and Min, {Yuan I.} and Holbrook, {Janet T.} and {Van Natta}, Mark and Quinn, {Thomas C.} and Murphy, {Robert L.} and William Welch and Jabs, {Douglas A.} and Carr-Holden, {Louise M.} and Kay Doyle and Victor Fainstein and Neal Gardner and Ronald Gross and Silvia Orengo-Nania and Varsha Patel and Samo, {Tobias C.} and Shigley, {James W.} and Laura Shawver and Spencer, {Steven S.} and Mary Weinert and Dunn, {J. P.} and John Bartlett and Rebecca Becker and Jabs, {Douglas A.} and Johnson, {Daniel A.} and John Kempen and Susan LaSalvia and Jo Leslie and Janine Maenza and Tracy Miller and Neisser, {Laura G.} and Semba, {Richard D.} and Pamela Tucker and Bruce Barron and Barron Jarrott and Gholam Peyman and Dennis Swenie and Heinemann, {Murk Hein} and Roberta Janis and Bruce Polsky and Kent Sepkowitz and Friedman, {Alan H.} and Robin Ginsburg and Colette Severin and Steven Teich and Fran Welch and Ronald Rescigno and Rosa Paez-Boham and Eileen Buroff and Patricia Kloser",
note = "Funding Information: Financial support: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (grants U10-EY08057 to C.L.M. and U10-EY08052 to D.A.J.); unrestricted grant from Amgen.",
year = "2002",
month = oct,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1086/342956",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "186",
pages = "1013--1018",
journal = "Journal of Infectious Diseases",
issn = "0022-1899",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "7",
}