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• With AIDS treatment having improved, fewer patients are getting cytomegalovirus retinitis.
• The race is also on to develop other drugs to battle cytomegalovirus retinitis.
• By that time AIDS-related Cytomegalovirus retinitis had begun robbing Ojeda of his eyesight.
• Currently, doctors can prescribe Roche's ganciclovir or Astra AB's foscarnet injection to patients with cytomegalovirus retinitis.
• Other HIV / AIDS vocabulary used throughout the novel are CMV retinitis ( Cytomegalovirus retinitis ), in which the infected person loses his or her eyesight.
• Among the mix of patients in trials, entoptic perimetry has been used to diagnose peripheral scotomas caused by cytomegalovirus retinitis, an opportunistic infection experienced by people in advanced stages of AIDS.
• Analysts said that they did not expect Vistide to have huge sales, because the number of people with cytomegalovirus retinitis is relatively small, but that it is an important first step for Gilead.
• Cytomegalovirus retinitis, a virus that progressively destroys the retina, is the leading cause of blindness among AIDS patients, striking as many as 40 in a 100, usually when they have less than a year to live.
• Because cytomegalovirus retinitis in one eye can spread to the other, or to other parts of the body, most patients who receive Vitrasert will probably also take oral ganciclovir, McCamant of the Medical Technology Stock Letter said.
• Until Chiron analyzes test results of the failed vaccine, it said it won't start final clinical trials of a vaccine for another herpes virus, cytomegalovirus retinitis, that can cause blindness in people with depressed immune systems.
• Cidofovir, which Gilead plans to sell under the brand name Vistide, received approval for the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis, a viral infection of the retina that threatens the sight of between 15 percent and 40 percent of AIDS patients.
• Until Chiron analyzes test results of the failed vaccine, the company said it won't start final clinical trials of a vaccine for another herpes virus, cytomegalovirus retinitis, that can cause blindness in people with depressed immune systems.
• Gilead Sciences Inc .'s experimental drug Vistide can delay the progression of cytomegalovirus retinitis, an eye infection that can cause blindness in up to 50 % of all HIV patients, according to an early analysis of a new study.
• As of 2014 two antisense drugs have been approved by the U . S . Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), fomivirsen ( marketed as Vitravene ) as a treatment for cytomegalovirus retinitis and mipomersen ( marketed as Kynamro ) for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
• Silver Spring, Maryland : Chiron Vision Corp .'s Vitrasert Sterile Intravitreal Implant for the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis will be reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration's Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee . ( See : CHIR US Equity BQ or NI FDA)
• Shares in Gilead Sciences Inc . plunged $ 7.75, or more than 20 percent, on Friday, prompting a halt in trading, when it was disclosed that the company's drug Vistide, under review as a treatment to prevent blindness from cytomegalovirus retinitis in AIDS patients, had caused tumors in female laboratory rats.
• Gilead Sciences Inc . of Foster City, Calif ., has filed for approval of a new intravenous drug, Vistide, which would require shots only every other week, and Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc . of Carlsbad, Calif ., is in the late stages of clinical trials on a cytomegalovirus retinitis drug to be injected directly in the eye.
• Dugdale's rural idyll was interrupted in 1993 when he developed AIDS, along with a grim opportunistic miscellany including cancer, viral meningitis, several bouts of viral pneumonia and a stroke that left him deaf in one ear and coincided with cytomegalovirus retinitis, which deprived him of all of his vision in one eye and 80 percent in the other.