title: Clinical diagnosis of cardiac involvement in HIV infection.
abstract: HIV infection is continuously raising, and different treatments did not manage to extend the patient's life. Clinical and morphopathological features of respiratory, gastrointestinal, hematological and nervous system are well characterized in HIV infection, but cardiac involvement is not so well known. Cardiac involvement is extremely rare in HIV disease, but demonstrated by echocardiography and anatomo-pathologic methods, it is more frequently met than the clinical features are supposed to be, and it can be demonstrated by positive serologic tests.The main reason of this research is the necessity to obtain data from HIV infection concerning heart involvement.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, Th. Burghele Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania. geamai_ayfer@yahoo.com
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moldovan
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Branzan
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nechita
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ardeleanu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Teodorescu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Geamai
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D002947:Cities; D003710:Demography; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007022:Hypotension / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D055815:Young Adult