Clinical complications of antiretroviral therapy in HIV/TB patients in referral hospital, China

Aim: The aim was to highlight the clinical complications and to evaluate risk factors of mortality in Chinese HIV/TB patients. Methods: The etiology of clinical deterioration of Chinese HIV/TB patients were evaluated in 180 HIV-infected patients admitted in the Beijing Ditan Hospital between 1 January 2012 and 30 April 2014. Results & conclusion: AIDS-defining illnesses (20.0%) were the most common complication, followed by TB-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (16.6%), drug-induced liver injury (11.1%), drug rash (11.1%), non-AIDS-defining illness (5.6%), as well as highly active antiretroviral therapy resistance (3.3%). The risk factors for mortality were tuberculous meningitis associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (OR: 152.614; CI: 18.324-1263.615; p < 0.001) and non-AIDS-defining illnesses (OR: 114.133; CI: 12.939-1006.752; p < 0.001), which will help remind physicians of the risk of clinical deterioration in HIV/TB patients after antiretroviral therapy in China.