Abstract
The widespread use of combination antiretroviral therapies (cART) has converted the prognosis of HIV infection from a rapidly progressive and ultimately fatal disease to a chronic condition with limited impact on life expectancy. Yet, HIV-infected patients remain at high risk for critical illness due to the occurrence of severe opportunistic infections in those with advanced immunosuppression (i.e., inaugural admissions or limited access to cART), a pronounced susceptibility to bacterial sepsis and tuberculosis at every stage of HIV infection, and a rising prevalence of underlying comorbidities such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, atherosclerosis or non-AIDS-defining neoplasms in cART-treated patients aging with controlled viral replication. Several patterns of intensive care have markedly evolved in this patient population over the late cART era, including a steady decline in AIDS-related admissions, an opposite trend in admissions for exacerbated comorbidities, the emergence of additional drivers of immunosuppression (e.g., anti-neoplastic chemotherapy or solid organ transplantation), the management of cART in the acute phase of critical illness, and a dramatic progress in short-term survival that mainly results from general advances in intensive care practices. Besides, there is a lack of data regarding other features of ICU and post-ICU care in these patients, especially on the impact of sociological factors on clinical presentation and prognosis, the optimal timing of cART introduction in AIDS-related admissions, determinants of end-of-life decisions, long-term survival, and functional outcomes. In this narrative review, we sought to depict the current evidence regarding the management of HIV-infected patients admitted to the intensive care unit.
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In the late cART era, most of HIV-infected patients requiring ICU admission present with bacterial sepsis or exacerbated chronic diseases though severe AIDS-related opportunistic infections continue to occur in those with previously unknown seropositivity or limited access to antiretroviral drugs. Short-term survival has dramatically improved over the past decades owing to general advances in ICU practices. |
Introduction
The pandemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection remains a pivotal public health challenge more than 20 years after the advent of combination antiretroviral therapies (cART), with 1.8 million new infections and almost 800,000 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related deaths occurring annually [1]. An estimated 37.8 million people are currently living with HIV worldwide, corresponding to a ~ 50% increase since the early 2000s that ensues from both continuous transmission of the disease and a dramatic improvement of life expectancy in patients with access to cART, the latter now accounting for roughly two-thirds of the global seropositive population [1].
HIV-infected patients are at high risk for critical illness due to the occurrence of severe opportunistic infections (OI) in those with advanced immunosuppression, a pronounced susceptibility to bacterial sepsis and tuberculosis at every stage of HIV infection, and a rising prevalence of comorbid conditions in cART-treated patients aging with controlled viral replication [2, 3]. Hence, caring for a patient with HIV infection still represents a common situation for intensivists even though the recruitment of each intensive care unit (ICU) varies substantially depending on local prevalence, sociological parameters, and admission volumes.
Several patterns of intensive care have markedly evolved in this patient population over the late cART era, including a steady decline in AIDS-related admissions, an opposite trend in admissions for exacerbated comorbidities, the emergence of new mechanisms of immunosuppression not directly resulting from AIDS [e.g., anti-neoplastic chemotherapy or solid organ transplantation (SOT)], the management of cART at the acute phase of critical illness, and a considerable enhancement in short-term survival that mainly results from general advances in ICU practices.
This narrative review aims at summarizing the available literature regarding the epidemiology, specific management and short-term outcomes of HIV-infected patients admitted to the ICU. Knowledge gaps and potential axes for future research are also discussed.
The current landscape of HIV infection in the ICU
Late-stage HIV infection remains a common reason for ICU admission in settings or sociological clusters with limited access to diagnosis, cART, and specialized aftercare—migrants, homeless people, and other individuals without adequate health insurance coverage are particularly affected in high-income countries. These patients primarily present with severe AIDS-related OIs on a background of poor nutritional status and advanced immunosuppression, similar to the early years of the HIV pandemic (1980–1995). Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP), cerebral toxoplasmosis and tuberculosis are the leading diagnoses, especially for inaugural admissions (Fig. 1) [2, 3]. Such patients account for 10–30% of all ICU admissions of HIV-infected individuals, though this proportion appears dwindling over the past decade [4,5,6,7,8,9]. Of note, severely immunosuppressed hosts—that is, those with CD4+ T lymphocyte (hereafter referred to as CD4 cells) counts < 100/µL—may not have a single pathological process to account for ICU presentation and intensivists should consider the possibility of two or more co-existing OIs.
Severe AIDS-defining conditions may also occur in patients with uncontrolled viral replication despite cART. However, the contemporary therapeutic armamentarium enables achieving viral suppression and immunological restoration within 6 months in more than 90% of cases—even those involving resistant strains—with maintenance of OI prophylaxis [e.g., sulfamethoxazole plus trimethoprim (SXT) for PCP] until a protective CD4 cell threshold is achieved [10, 11]. Beside compliance flaws, virological failure in 2020 is mainly linked with procurement issues (i.e., stock-outs, defective supply, or lack of financial resources) in low- and middle-income countries as in other environments with restricted access to cART.
cART-treated patients aging with sustained viral control are at increased risk for a broad spectrum of chronic diseases that predispose to life-threatening complications [4], including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), atherosclerosis (e.g., coronary heart disease or cerebrovascular disease), non-AIDS-defining cancers (especially lung, liver and anal carcinoma), and renal or liver impairment [12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. Lifetime low-level inflammation due to silent HIV replication in sanctuary sites, co-infections (e.g., CMV, EBV or HBV/HCV), intestinal dysbiosis, habitus (e.g., tobacco or intravenous drug use), sequelae of past infectious processes and long-term toxicity of certain antiretroviral medications may be implicated to varying degrees in the pathogenesis of these conditions [10, 19, 20]. Up to 70% of HIV-infected patients nowadays managed in the ICU are receiving long-term cART [6, 8, 9, 21,22,23,24]. This epidemiological shift translates into a continuous rise in non-AIDS-related ICU admissions which broadly exceeded those for severe OIs in most of recent cohorts. Furthermore, on the basis of encouraging outcomes, HIV infection is no longer a definite contra-indication for SOT in patients with chronic kidney, liver or heart failure, thereby enlarging the scope of critical illnesses in this population [25,26,27].
At last, acute HIV infection usually presents as a benign mononucleosis-like condition; yet, severe presentations including encephalitis, myocarditis, or multiple organ failure due to hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) have been occasionally reported and may require ICU admission [28,29,30,31].
Similarities between critically ill HIV-infected and seronegative patients
As a result of easier access to cART and sequential improvements in intensive care practices, critically ill HIV-infected individuals now share several similarities with the general population of ICU patients. First, the reasons for ICU admission are evenly distributed between seropositive and HIV-uninfected patients, with acute respiratory failure (ARF, 40–60% of all admissions), bacterial sepsis (10–20%, mostly resulting from respiratory, intra-abdominal and bloodstream infections) and impaired consciousness (10–20%) being the main clinical vignettes in both subgroups [5, 22, 24, 32]. Admissions for acute kidney injury (AKI), gastro-intestinal bleeding, acute or chronic liver failure, or scheduled post-operative management become more regular over time, which merely reflects the increasing prevalence of at-risk comorbidities in HIV-infected individuals—for instance, HIV/HCV-coinfected patients are more likely to develop AKI [2].
More than 70% of current admissions are not directly related to AIDS [24, 33], a proportion that is expected to amplify in the years to come. For a given reason of ICU admission, the etiological spectrum is increasingly analogous to what is observed in HIV-uninfected subjects. Indeed, bacterial pneumonia, COPD exacerbation, complicated lung cancer and pulmonary edema due to congestive heart failure have become major causes of ARF, while stroke or Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis are overtaking classic OIs of the central nervous system (CNS) in patients admitted for life-threatening neurological disorders [2, 3]. Again, chronic HIV infection stands as an independent risk factor for most of these AIDS-unrelated conditions.
Notwithstanding a manifest propensity to these diseases, the clinical presentation of common community-acquired infections does not differ between HIV-infected patients with mild-to-moderate immunosuppression and their seronegative counterparts. This is notably true for pneumonia due to Streptococcus pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophila or bacterial meningitis [34,35,36]. This also applies for Clostridioides difficile-associated diarrhea and other hospital-acquired infections though HIV-infected patients appear at higher risk for multidrug-resistant pathogens due to frequent healthcare and antimicrobial exposure [37, 38]. Excepting those with profound immune deficiency [6, 39], HIV-infected patients with sepsis exhibit no discrepancies in terms of plasma levels of host response biomarkers, disease severity and survival when compared to HIV-uninfected controls [40, 41]. Therefore, the diagnostic workflow and initial management of HIV-infected patients with a protective CD4 cell count for usual OIs (i.e., above 200–250/µL) has no relevant particularities and should follow standard procedures and guidelines [42].
The spectacular improvement of life expectancy in cART-treated patients offers long-term perspectives that justify maximizing the level of supportive care when indicated. Invasive mechanical ventilation (MV, 40–50% of all admissions), vasopressors (15–30%), and renal replacement therapy for AKI (8–15%) are now used as frequently in seropositive individuals as in the general ICU population [5, 7, 24, 33, 43, 44], with comparable prognoses including in patients at high risk of death such as those admitted following cardiac arrest or with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) [45, 46]. Last-resort veno-venous or veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation can be discussed in selected patients, with auspicious results in published reports [47, 48].
Strikingly, overall in-hospital mortality rates have dropped from more than 80% in the early 80s to 20–40% in most of recent European and US cohorts, a shift that likely reflects general improvement in intensive care such as direct admission from the emergency department, prompt antibiotic initiation and hemodynamic interventions in patients with sepsis, or protective MV settings for ARDS [21,22,23,24, 33, 43]. Short-term outcomes of critically ill HIV-infected patients trend to equal those of seronegative subjects with similar demographics, chronic health status and underlying diseases (e.g., HCV or malignancy), reason for admission, and extent of organ dysfunction [32]. CD4 cell count, HIV viral load, prior cART use and an admission for an AIDS-related event (versus other diagnoses) are no longer associated with hospital survival [5, 6, 49, 50].
Common AIDS-defining diagnoses in the ICU
Acute respiratory failure
PCP (overall prevalence, 10–20% of ARF) develops almost exclusively in individuals with CD4 cells < 200/µL, while community-acquired pneumonia (CAP, 30–50%) and pulmonary tuberculosis (up to 20% in high-endemicity areas) may occur at every stage of HIV infection though their incidence increases with lower CD4 cell counts [7, 24, 51,52,53] (Fig. 1). Severe pneumonia due to non-tuberculosis mycobacteria, CMV, Histoplasma capsulatum, Toxoplasma gondii and Cryptococcus neoformans may rarely occur in patients with CD4 cells < 100/µL [51, 54]. Other features to consider include an history of OI at risk for relapse (e.g., tuberculosis), OI-directed prophylaxis (e.g., second-line PCP prophylaxis such as atovaquone or aerosolized pentamidine are less effective than SXT), the extent of extra-pulmonary failure (e.g., septic shock does not occur during PCP and should trigger the search for bacterial superinfection or a concurrent OI), the presence of HLH (more common with certain OIs such as tuberculosis or disseminated histoplasmosis), radiological patterns, microbiological findings [usual non-invasive samples, plus fiber optic bronchoscopy with bronchoalveloar lavage (BAL) in severely immunosuppressed patients], and a geographical origin at risk for imported OIs. Along this line, an important migratory flow towards Western Europe has occurred throughout the last decade. The prevalence of seropositivity among migrants reflects the epidemiological pattern of their native country, although evidence exists that HIV infection is often acquired in the post-migratory phase [55]. After resettlement, one major driver of AIDS-associated complications in seropositive migrants is the prevalence of a given OI in the country of origin, with tuberculosis being among the greatest concerns [56].
Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible for 20–40% of CAP in this population [51,52,53]. Secondary bacteremia and pleuritis are more frequent in patients with CD4 cells < 100/µL, a finding that likely reflects HIV-associated dysfunctions of alveolar macrophages [34, 53]. Legionella pneumophila CAP, an otherwise classic complication of advanced AIDS, is only barely reported in HIV-infected patients admitted to the ICU for ARF [51, 52]. Enterobacterales and Staphylococcus aureus are occasional pathogens, as in HIV-uninfected ICU patients with CAP. Of note, Pseudomonas aeruginosa may cause severe CAP—and should, therefore, be considered in the empirical antimicrobial spectrum—in patients with pulmonary comorbidities and/or severe immunosuppression [51].
PCP continues to decline in frequency as a cause of ICU admission but remains the most common AIDS-defining OI encountered in the ICU, especially in patients with previously unknown HIV infection [5, 24, 33, 52]. AIDS-related PCP typically presents with worsening exertional dyspnea, non-productive cough and fever over 2–4 weeks—in contrast, PCP arising secondary to SOT or hematological malignancy is often more fulminant [57]. A diagnosis of AIDS-related PCP rests on the identification of cystic or trophic forms of P. jirovecii trough staining and/or immunofluorescence on BAL fluid, which have a > 90% sensitivity and a ~ 100% specificity in patients with a clinical presentation and a CD4 cell count compatible with this condition (Table 1) [54, 58]. The detection of P. jirovecii DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in BAL fluid is highly sensitive but poorly specific in HIV-infected patients due to a high prevalence of colonization (up to 70%) in patients with low CD4 cell counts [59,60,61]. Serum ß-D-glucan (cut-off level, 80 pg/mL) is also sensitive (> 92%) yet lacks specificity (78–82%) as the test may be positive in other AIDS-related OIs such as invasive candidiasis or histoplasmosis [62, 63]. Typical PCP patterns on high-resolution chest CT scan include reticular infiltrates, intra-parenchymal cysts, patchy or diffuse ground-glass opacities and alveolar consolidation that usually spare the peripheral regions, without pleural effusion or mediastinal lymphadenopathy (Fig. 2). SXT remains the first-choice regimen (Table 1), including in patients developing PCP while receiving this combination as prophylaxis. Whereas its benefit remains debated in other immunosuppressed hosts [64, 65], strong evidence exists for using adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in suspected or proven AIDS-related PCP, with reduced requirement for invasive MV and in-hospital mortality rates when started within 72 h following SXT introduction in patients with PaO2 < 70 mmHg while breathing room air [54, 66].
The presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis has no particularity in patients with early HIV infection, while those with CD4 cells < 200/µL more often have atypical lesions (e.g., miliary or diffuse alveolar infiltrates without upper lobe cavitation) and/or extra-respiratory localizations [54, 67]. Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) should be performed on at least one respiratory sample in HIV-positive patients with suspected tuberculosis, both to distinguish Mycobacterium tuberculosis from other mycobacteria in those with sputum smears positive for acid-fast bacilli (AFB) and to allow earlier detection of M. tuberculosis in AFB-negative sputum smears (sensitivity in AFB-negative/culture-proven tuberculosis, 50–80%) [54, 68]. NAATs including probes for rpoB mutations may also provide information on rifampicin susceptibility weeks before culture-based tests. Interferon-gamma release assays lack sensitivity for diagnosing active tuberculosis and cannot act as a decision-making tool in this indication [54]. The first-line regimen for suspected or definite pulmonary tuberculosis is shown in Table 1. Whether adjunctive corticosteroids exert a beneficial outcome effect in HIV-infected patients with tuberculosis-induced ARF remains to be investigated [69, 70].
Other AIDS-related pulmonary OIs are exceptionally responsible for ARF (Fig. 1).
Neurological admissions
The most prevalent AIDS-related CNS diseases in the ICU are tuberculous meningitis, cerebral toxoplasmosis and cryptococcal meningitis [33, 49] (Fig. 1). These infections occur almost exclusively in patients with CD4 cells < 200/µL. Other CNS OIs such as CMV encephalitis, nocardiosis, aspergillosis or progressive multifocal encephalopathy due to JC virus are highly uncommon. The diagnosis of CNS OIs should be based on clinical signs, temporal evolution, features of contrast-enhanced brain imaging (with magnetic resonance imaging as first-choice procedure), and lumbar puncture for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis in patients without mass effect at risk for cerebral herniation [71]. Multiple infections may coexist and cerebral OIs may be superimposed on primary HIV-associated neurologic disorders (e.g., HIV encephalitis).
Patients with AIDS-related cerebral toxoplasmosis—an OI resulting from reactivated intra-parenchymal Toxoplasma gondii cysts—may present with impaired mental status, motor deficits or seizures [72]. Fever is inconsistently reported. Multifocal, ring-enhanced, and sometimes hemorrhagic lesions in the cortex and/or basal ganglia are typically observed on MRI (Fig. 2), while single abscess and diffuse encephalitis are more anecdotal. Molecular assays can be helpful in cases of ambiguous clinical presentation or unusual imaging findings [71]. The first-line regimen for suspected cerebral toxoplasmosis is combined pyrimethamine, sulfadiazine, and leucovorin, with adjunctive corticosteroids for patients with threatening mass effect due to lesion-induced edema (Table 1). A brain biopsy must be discussed to search for another OI in patients with atypical presentation, negative IgG serology, or lack of response to empirical therapy as assessed clinically and through repeated brain imaging around day 10.
The clinical presentation of tuberculous meningitis may combine fever, focal signs, subacute mental alterations, and de novo epilepsy [71, 73]. Typical MRI and CSF analysis results are exposed in Table 1. Standard therapy rests on a combination of rifampicin, isoniazid, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide, with no established benefit of high-dose rifampicin or a five-drug regimen including a fluoroquinolone [54, 74]. Adjunctive corticosteroids improve short-term survival—but not the functional prognosis of survivors—and are recommended in this indication [54, 75].
Patients with Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis and meningoencephalitis present with fever, headaches, and impaired mental status due to intra-cranial hypertension. The diagnosis is usually straightforward using CSF analysis (Table 1). The most effective therapeutic regimen includes a combination of amphotericin B and flucytosine for at least 2 weeks then an azole-based consolidation phase after clinical improvement and CSF sterilization [76]. Patients with elevated intra-cranial pressure refractory to repeated removal of large volumes of CSF may benefit from temporary lumbar drain or ventriculo-peritoneal shunt. There is no role for adjunctive acetazolamide, corticosteroids, or sertraline to control CSF pressure [54, 77].
Cytomegalovirus infection
CMV reactivation, detected by quantitative PCR in peripheral blood, is commonly observed in critically ill HIV-infected patients, especially in those with low CD4 cell counts and/or inter-current OIs. Careful assessment should be made for identification of rare end-organ diseases (e.g., retinitis, encephalitis, esophagitis, colitis, or pneumonitis) that require treatment with intravenous ganciclovir or foscarnet [54].
Non-HHV8-associated lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL and HL, respectively) remain a major cause of mortality in the late cART era, with 33–76% of affected patients having undetectable HIV viral load at diagnosis [78, 79]. NHL are almost constantly aggressive and are often EBV-related [80]. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is still the most frequent type but Burkitt lymphoma (BL) has gained an overgrowing place in recent years and now accounts for 40% of lymphoma-related ICU admissions in seropositive individuals [79]. Primary CNS EBV-induced lymphoma, a hallmark AIDS-defining disease until the early 90s, is now occasional [81].
The reported prevalence of NHL and HL in HIV-infected patients admitted to the ICU may reach 8% and 1.5% in recent cohorts, with inaugural admission in up to 75% of cases [81]. Patients may be admitted for lymphoma-induced HLH, tumor lysis syndrome, organ infiltration or compression, or chemotherapy-related complications such as sepsis in neutropenic patients [81, 82]. Preserving renal function is crucial to optimize subsequent chemotherapy schemes, notably in BL that often requires high-dose methotrexate. NHL at high risk for tumor lysis syndrome—notably DLBCL with large tumor volume and BL—may require preventive ICU admission at the time of induction chemotherapy for fluid management, rasburicase administration, and prompt renal replacement therapy when necessary [83].
In addition to supportive care, the cornerstones of management of HIV-associated lymphoma in the ICU include adequate tissue sampling for diagnostic procedures, whole-body imaging (either CT scan or FDG-positron emission tomography) to appraise tumor burden and localizations, biological evaluation for HLH and tumor lysis syndrome, cardiac evaluation as most chemotherapy regimens are anthracycline-based, prompt administration of etoposide in case of HLH, and timely chemotherapy induction with prevention of tumor lysis syndrome in high-risk patients [84, 85]. Of note, rituximab should not be included in the chemotherapy regimen in patients with CD4 cells < 50/µL due to excess toxicities without survival benefit [86]. The management of cART in this context requires a close collaboration between ICU, hematology and infectious diseases physicians [87]. Overall survival rates depend on tumor characteristics rather than on HIV infection, which does not impact the outcome of lymphoma managed in the ICU [88,89,90].
HHV8-related diseases
The most frequent human herpes virus 8 (HHV8)-related disease is Kaposi sarcoma (KS), an endothelial cell-derived tumor that may affect various organs and tissues, especially the skin, mucosa, lymph nodes, lungs, and intestinal tract [91, 92]. The severity of KS depends on the presence of life-threatening localizations (e.g., the lower respiratory tract), its extension, and the degree of immune deficiency [51, 91]. The treatment of AIDS-related KS rests on immune restoration through cART and, occasionally, chemotherapy for aggressive presentations. Steroids should be avoided in patients with KS as they can exacerbate the course of the disease [91]. Multicentric Castleman disease is a HHV8-induced polyclonal B lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by recurrent bouts of fever with lymphoid hyperplasia and severe systemic inflammatory symptoms linked to inappropriate release of IL-6, IL-10 and other cytokines, ultimately resulting in HLH and transformation to NHL [93, 94]. Etoposide is the first-line drug for severe associated HLH, while long-term outcomes have markedly improved with the use of rituximab [95]. Primary effusion lymphoma (as diagnosed through positive HHV8 PCR and presence of large B cells in pleural or peritoneal fluid) and DLBCL may also complicate the course of HHV8 infection in seropositive patients.
Combination antiretroviral therapy in the ICU
Admissions for cART-related events
ART-related toxicity accounts for approximately 5% of ICU admissions in this population [2, 3, 7]. Old antiretrovirals are notably associated with lactic acidosis (e.g., AZT, didanosine) or pancreatitis (e.g., didanosine), while proximal tubulopathy with AKI and toxic epidermal necrolysis are well-described adverse events of tenofovir and nevirapine, respectively. New drugs may also cause critical complications such rhabdomyolysis from raltegravir.
Immune recovery may induce paradoxical worsening of an already treated or previously undiagnosed OI within weeks or months after initiating cART. Examples of this immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) include development of ARF in patients with initially mild-to-moderate PCP, or neurological deterioration due to paradoxical enlargement of cerebral tuberculomas, toxoplasma abscesses, or cryptococcal lesions [96]. IRIS-induced HLH has also been reported. Risk factors for IRIS include high baseline viral load, low baseline CD4 cell count, and rapid CD4 cells recovery after starting cART [97]. Steroids are the first-line drugs for severe IRIS, without requirement for interrupting cART in most cases [98].
Starting or continuing cART during critical illness
There are no prospective evaluations of the safety, efficacy and timing of cART administration in the ICU. Clinicians frequently rely on expert opinion to guide decision-making regarding initiating, continuing or stopping cART alongside managing critical illness. Individual case-by-case discussion with an infectious diseases/HIV specialist is recommended.
Current US and European guidelines recommend cART initiation at 2 weeks after the start of specific OI treatment, except for those with cryptococcosis or CNS tuberculosis due to the risk of severe IRIS that may outweigh potential benefits from rapid immune recovery—in these situations, cART initiation must be deferred until at least 4 weeks and proven disease control [11, 98]. By contrast, evidence for initiating cART in patients admitted to the ICU with an active OI remains less clear [99]. An algorithm for using cART in the ICU is proposed in Fig. 3.
In patients treated prior to admission, cART should be continued in the ICU whenever possible. Clinicians should consider the emergence of new HIV resistance mutations due to cART interruption, although the risk is likely limited if the period off cART is short. Factors that may complicate the continuation of cART in critically ill patients include adverse drug reactions, drug–drug interactions, impaired enteral absorption, the need to deliver drugs via a nasogastric tube, avoidance of proton-pump inhibitors, H2 antagonists and other antacids if cART contains components such as atazanavir or rilpivirine (which require gastric acidity for absorption), avoidance of enteral nutrition products containing iron, calcium, magnesium or aluminum to prevent malabsorption of integrase inhibitors, and dose adjustment due to renal and/or hepatic impairment. Drugs available as liquid formulations or that can be crushed are listed in Table 2.
Long-term outcomes following critical illness
The widespread use of cART has substantially improved the prognosis of HIV-infected persons and has converted the disorder into a chronic condition, such that successful treatment results in nearly normal life expectancy provided cART is initiated early and there is access to adequate medical care [100, 101]. In some resource-limited regions, however, where access to treatment, availability of appropriate health care facilities (including ICU), social factors, compliance issues and logistics pose serious challenges, this major medical progress may be adversely influenced, potentially affecting long-term outcome. Delayed presentation and impaired functional status are additional factors that impact long-term prognosis following critical illness in these settings. Notwithstanding these challenges, emerging evidence suggests similar and improving trends to those observed in developed settings [102, 103].
Overall, a paucity of data exists with respect to long-term outcomes in this patient population. A recent meta-analysis involving 12 trials revealed significant short-term and long-term (≥ 90 days) mortality benefit following initiation or maintenance of cART in the ICU [99]. A similar beneficial effect has been reported with follow-up extending to 1 year. A deleterious long-term impact of high viral load and low CD4 cell count has been reported though this is not a universal finding. The therapeutic focus of cART is suppression of viral load with concomitant increase in CD4 cell count (Table 3) [104]. Appropriate timing of cART initiation has been associated with improved overall outcomes in critically ill patients with tuberculosis, cryptococcal meningitis and PCP. However, how this impacts long-term survival remains under-investigated.
As previously mentioned, seropositive patients surviving to their ICU stay are now at increased hazard of comorbidities associated with aging, chronic HIV infection, and cART-related toxicities [10, 105]. This is especially relevant for cardiovascular and liver diseases, COPD, pulmonary hypertension, certain solid and hematological malignancies, and associated psychiatric disorders, all of which exerting an obvious impact on long-term prognosis. These patients are also exposed to chronic renal disorders that predispose to AKI during the ICU stay, a complication that has been shown to be independently associated with mortality at 1, 2, and 5 years following discharge [106]. Lastly, excessive weight gain has recently emerged as an adverse event of newer antiretrovirals, with the potential for obesity and metabolic disorders [107].
Although major strides have been made, scanty long-term outcome data in critically ill patients necessitates further study to better define and characterize the epidemiology, relevant variables, disparities and regional differences in this group of patients.
Concluding remarks and research perspectives
Once a rapidly progressive and ultimately fatal disease, HIV infection has become a chronic condition with limited impact on quality of life and life expectancy when managed appropriately [108]. Therefore, HIV infection, even at late stages, should never be considered as a stand-alone reason to deny referral to the ICU [2, 3, 109]. Bacterial sepsis and exacerbations of AIDS-unrelated comorbidities—most of them being favored by late HIV infection—now account for the majority of ICU admissions in this population, although severe OIs continue to occur in patients with previously unknown seropositivity or limited access to cART due to sociological or geographical issues (Table 4). As the prevalence of cART use at ICU admission is rising steadily, HIV-infected patients now trend to equal their seronegative counterparts in terms of clinical presentation and short-term outcomes, the latter being mostly impacted by age, performance status, underlying chronic diseases and extent of organ dysfunctions rather than by HIV characteristics.
Several emerging research areas warrant prospective investigations in HIV-infected patients requiring ICU admission. These notably include (i) the weight of sociological parameters and limited access to HIV-specific care on admission features and prognosis, (ii) the timing and management of cART in the particular context of critical illness, (iii) the long-term outcomes of ICU survivors in terms of HIV control, residual immune deficiency, progression of associated chronic diseases, cognitive status, and quality of life, (iv) the impact of novel drivers of immune impairment—for instance, SOT and solid or hematological malignancies—on the clinical presentation and prognosis of patients with otherwise controlled HIV replication under cART, and (v) ethical issues in an era of improved overall survival, with assessment of decision-making factors (i.e., HIV-specific parameters versus AIDS-unrelated characteristics such as age, comorbidities and nutritional status) for withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies in the most severely ill patients.
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Barbier, F., Mer, M., Szychowiak, P. et al. Management of HIV-infected patients in the intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med 46, 329–342 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-05945-3
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