What Is Acute Pyelonephritis

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which one suposed to be my nadir ??

Dear dr young,I found out i was hiv + 21th of march this year just after treatment for a pyelonephritis due to e-coli. they did a cd-4 count (forgot the vl)cd-4 was 370 at that time.six weeks later i'had my first appointment with my aids...

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Thanks for your question; the formal answer to your question is that your nadir is the 370 measurement; however, you had a concurrent illness at that time; the kidney infection that you were having then undoubtedly affected the CD4 count... Read more »

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