[Primary pulmonary hypertension associated with HTLV-I retrovirus infection at the adult T-cell leukemia lymphoma stage].
BACKGROUND
Primary pulmonary hypertension is a rare condition characterized by sustained elevation of pulmonary artery pressure without demonstrable cause. Risk factors such as HIV infection are associated with this disease. HTLV-1 is a retrovirus endemic in Japan and in the Caribbean and an adult T-cell leukaemia-lymphoma is the most severe complication induced.


METHODS
A 59 Year-old West Indian woman who had an HTLV-1 retrovirus infection complicated by adult T-cell leukaemia lymphoma developed primary pulmonary hypertension.


CONCLUSIONS
The link between HIV infection and primary pulmonary hypertension is already known. The hypothesis of a link with an other retrovirus has to be confirmed by furthers studies.
Blaquière
Gilles
G
Service de médecine interne 3D, médecine des voyages, Fort de France. gblaqui@hotmail.com
Bolo
Murielle
M
Inamo
Jocelyn
J
Daoudal
Pierre
P
Delaunay
Christine
C
Pagnot
Rachelle
R
Numéric
Patrick
P
D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000150:complications; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology*; D015459:Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000150:complications