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ECHO ROUNDS Section Editor: Edmund Kenneth Kerut, M.D.: Echocardiographic Findings in HIV Disease and AIDS
Author(s) -
Velasquez Enrique M.,
Glancy David Luke,
Helmcke Fredrick,
Kerut Edmund Kenneth
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.00136.x
Subject(s) - human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , section (typography) , library science , gerontology , classics , family medicine , history , computer science , operating system
There are 40 million people in the world infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).1 New treatments for HIV have allowed these patients to live longer and cardiac manifestations are becoming more evident. Echocardiographic abnormalities can be found in up to 44% of patients infected with HIV.2 These findings include pericardial effusion (PE), left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), infective endocarditis (IE), pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), and cardiac masses such as lymphoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma of the heart. In addition, highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has been associated with the development of ischemic heart disease and LV diastolic abnormalities. This review discusses these findings in the adult and pediatric population, as they relate to the echocardiographer.