WHAT IS THE MEANING OF CD4

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Understanding CD4 Cells and CD4 Cell Tests

The Basics CD4 Count and HIV CD4 Count and HIV Treatment CD4 Cell Test The Bottom Line The Basics Your immune system protects your body by fighting germs and infections.White blood cells are an important part of your immune system. HIV infects and destroys a type of white blood cell called aCD4 cell (sometimes called a T-cell). When the immune system loses too many CD4 cells, it becomes weak and isunable to fight off germs. At...

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What does it mean if your CD4 COUNT IS 364?

AND MY VIRAL LOAD IS 56,000...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Your viral load is the moderate range and your CD4 count is also moderately decreased. A normal CD4 count in someone without HIV infection is between 500-1500. given those numbers, HIV treatment would be recommended for most people.... Read more »

meaning of cd4 count of 469

im a 21 year old lady who was diagnosed with hiv nov 2007 after an outbreak of shingles with a cd4 count of 469. i was testes hiv negative in jan 2005,when does a cd4 count drop to 469 like that if i contracted the disease in the year 2007. im so...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

A normal CD4 count is between 500-1500. In most people who become HIV infected, we don't know what the CD4 count was before HIV infection. So you may not have lost many CD4 cells if you started at the lower end of the normal range.... Read more »

Real meaning of CD4 counts

I was diagnosed with HIV around 3 years ago and have good labs and good health. Last bloods were CD4 780 CD4% 27% VL 37,000. However I have just experienced a month of serious illness - chicken pox & zoster in my throat - Candida in oesophagus...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Darrell,Darrell from Tasmania??? Guess that makes you a Tasmanian Darrell??? Eh?Darrell, you may well be jumping to the wrong conclusions here. If your herpes zoster was limited to a single dermatome, I would not be overly concerned about... Read more »

What is CD4/CD8 ratio mean?

My husband is currently taking epivir,zerit,& invirase.His last CD4 count was 486 down from 568 and his last viral loadcount was 5586 in 12/96.A copy of the CD4 lab test shows CD4/CD8 ration 0.37 andthe techs impression was thatcompared to last...

Response from Cal Cohen, M.D., M.S.

Harvard Medical School

My advice would be to ignore the CD4/CD8 ratio, which is rarely used anymore, and focus on the viral load, the absolute count CD4 count, and the CD4 percentage. In your husband's case, the viral load is what is most important. If he's... Read more »

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Use of cd4/cd8

Posted by Anonymous

Hi,
dropping by this bulletin-board, I see there is a lot of use and abuse of t-cell subsets among worried wells. To put things in perspective - cd4/cd8-ratios were used as a surrogate marker of HIV-infection among blood donors at a US hospital... Read more »

How do you boost your CD4?

Posted by cm82391, 2 Replies

Diet and exercise seem to be the most common thing to think of (what a no brainer)

But what are some things you guys do that seem to work? Read more »

my CD4 counts dropped. is this normal?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I have been infected for just 8 months and have been on meds. My CD4 counts rose to 416 and i am undetectable in viral load. My question is, last week, my CD4 counts dropped to 386. Is this normal? do they fluctuate? I'm worried that my meds are... Read more »

Do anybody know about CD4 cells count?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Hi guys,

I have a question about my tests - in fear of HIV infection because of a bad incident and symptoms not long after, I went to have my blood tested for HIV as well as other infections - the PCR and antibody test both turned out Negative, but... Read more »

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