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Echocardiographic Findings in HIV-Infected Patients

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Echocardiography is an important imaging technique providing real-time imaging that can be performed at the bedside and easily repeated as needed (Table 1). Before the era of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART), cardiac complications in HIV included pericardial effusion, dilated cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, endocarditis, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac neoplasm, coronary artery disease and drug-related cardiotoxicity [1, 2]. Cardiac abnormalities, although usually clinically silent, can be detected in necropsy series in the majority of infected HIV patients (40–60%) [3].

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    S. Ederhy, C. Meuleman, N. Haddour, G. Dufaitre, F. Boccara & A. Cohen

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Ederhy, S., Meuleman, C., Haddour, N., Dufaitre, G., Boccara, F., Cohen, A. (2009). Echocardiographic Findings in HIV-Infected Patients. In: Barbaro, G., Boccara, F. (eds) Cardiovascular Disease in AIDS. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0761-1_6

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