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Table 4 Reasons for anti-CMVR treatment cessation in HIV-positive patients treated at MTY Clinic, Myanmar, 2013–2017

From: Treating HIV-associated cytomegalovirus retinitis with oral valganciclovir and intra-ocular ganciclovir by primary HIV clinicians in southern Myanmar: a retrospective analysis of routinely collected data

Reason for cessation, N (%)

Total

(N = 44)a

Local treatment

(N = 16)

Systemic treatment

(N = 28)

CD4 > 100 cells/μL

20 (45)

3 (19)

17 (61)

No active retinitis

4 (9)

1 (6)

3 (11)

Unknown

18 (41)

10 (63)

8 (29)

Clinical decision re: blindness

2 (4.5)

2 (13)

0

  1. CMVR Cytomegalovirus retinitis; MTY Mittar Yeik.
  2. a Excludes nine patients who died.