ABSTRACT

Drug class Drug Selected toxicities

Nucleoside All (e.g., Nausea/vomiting, reverse zidovudine, diarrhea, hepatic transcriptase abacavir, steatosis, lactic inhibitors emtricitabine, acidosis

tenofovir) Didanosine, Pancreatitis zalcitabine, stavudine, lamivadine

Nonnucleoside All (e.g., Nausea/vomiting, reverse trans-nevirapine, most diarrhea, abnormal criptase liver-toxic, and liver function tests inhibitors delaviridine)

Efavirenz Pancreatitis Protease All (saquinavir, Nausea/vomiting, inhibitors ritonavir, most diarrhea, abnormal

GI side effects, liver function tests, indinavir, pancreatitis; more nelfinavir, GI bleeding in amprenavir, hemophiliacs lopinavir, atazanavir, fosamprenavir)

• the incidence of opportunistic infections in patients infected with HIV.