The influence of portal pressure on the discordance between absolute CD4+ cell count and CD4+ cell percentage in HIV/hepatitis C virus-coinfected patients

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To the Editor—We read the articles by Hull et al [1] and Claassen et al [2] with interest. The authors have demonstrated that a discordance between absolute CD4+ cell count and CD4+ cell percentage is common in both human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/hepatitis C virus (HCV)-coinfected. and . HIV-infected patients and that it is associated with end-stage liver disease and surrogate markers of liver fibrosis, such as as-partate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index and liver stiffness measured by transient elastography.