title: [Clinical and morphological features of infectious endocarditis in HIV-infected intravenous drug abusers].
abstract: The aim of this work was to study the clinical course and morphogenesis of infectious endocarditis in HIV-infected intravenous drug abusers. In this patients, endocarditis was an acute disease with high frequency of thromboembolic complications and ill-defined exudative component of the inflammatory reaction. Autopsies dated to 1993-2008 showed that neither the presence of morphological signs of early HIV infection nor chronic hepatitis C with minimal or moderate inflammation has an appreciable effect on the intrahospital mortality rate in these patients.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Ulanova
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Mazurov
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Tsinzerling
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D055030:Drug Users; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006678:HIV; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012426:Russia; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications*; D015996:Survival Rate