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[Clinical-echocardiography of 210 HIV-Ab positive patients: retrospective study]

Riv Eur Sci Med Farmacol. 1991 Sep-Dec;13(5-6):231-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/92311468
Izzo E; Crispo C; Manzillo E; Liberti A; Caruso I; Buonocore S; Pirone S; Bisogno A; Maio G; III Divisione, Presidio Ospedaliero D. Cotugno, USL 41, Napoli.

Abstract: Through the retrospective study of 210 HIV Ab+ patients in different disease's stages, recovered in the D. Cotugno-Naples hospital during the period February 1989-February 1991, the authors have valued the prevalence of cardiological alterations underlined by ecocardiograph. Pericardial pouring has been observed in four patients out of thirty, belonged to stages II, III and ARC. Ventricles' movement alterations have been observed in twenty patients out of thirty (66%), belonged prevalently to the fourth group. Kaposi's sarcoma has been observed in two patients out of thirty (6.6%), belonged to the fourth group. In the patients showing alterations, the authors have also noticed a correlation among the observed cardiological alterations and the immunital outline and the frequent homosexuality's presence. The follow up between the alterations' observation and the possible patient's death is on an average 4.3 months (range 1-12). They suggest that a wider and more precocious ecocardiographical research of HIV Ab+ patients is the only way, at the moment, to underline and follow the cardiac alterations' evolution, also in relation to a precocious antiretroviral therapy.
Keywords: Adolescence Adult Child *Echocardiography English Abstract Female Heart/PHYSIOPATHOLOGY Human HIV Seropositivity/PHYSIOPATHOLOGY/*ULTRASONOGRAPHY Male Middle Age Retrospective Studies JOURNAL ARTICLEKWDadolescenceadultchildKWDechocardiographyenglishabstractfemaleheart/physiopathologyhumanhivseropositivity/physiopathology/KWDultrasonographymalemiddleageretrospectivestudiesjournalarticle
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