A treatment effort for people who are not responding to, or cannot tolerate the preferred, recommended treatments for a particular condition. In the context of HIV infection, drug treatments that are used or studied in individuals who have failed one or more HIV drug regimens, including protease inhibitors. In this case, failed refers to the inability to achieve and sustain low viral load levels.
Second-line therapy; used to treat disease that has not responded to initial therapy or relapsed disease.
a treatment strategy for managing HIV in people who have developed resistance to existing therapies.
procedure performed following the failure of a prior treatment; for example, salvage prostatectomy (surgical removal of the prostate) or salvage radiotherapy (treatment of the malignant tissue using radiation).
A drug regimen that is initiated after other regimens have failed. Often, salvage therapy is used to refer to regimens designed to combat highly resistant HIV. Also called rescue therapy.
emergency treatment with an experimental drug of an illness that has not responded to standard therapy.
treatment with experimental or non-standard drugs for an illness that has not responded to standard therapy.
a term for combination therapy once someone has resistance to three or more classes of HIV drugs. Also called ‘third-line’ or ‘rescue therapy’. second-line therapy: the combination of anti-HIV drugs used after your first treatment has failed. treatment experienced: someone who has previously used anti-HIV treatments.
Also referred to as rescue therapy. A treatment effort for people whose antiretroviral regimens have failed at least two times and who have had extensive prior exposure to antiretroviral agents.
Treatment that is given after the cancer has not responded to other treatments.
Refers to the final possible treatment for individuals who are irresponsive to or cannot tolerate other available treatments for a particular condition.
Salvage therapy is a form of treatment given after an ailment does not respond to standard treatment . The most common diseases that require salvage therapy are HIV and various tumors. The word is not clearly defined; it is used both to mean a second attempt and a final attempt .