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AIDS
Thursday 7 April 2005
Synopsis
opportunistic infections
cardiovascular lesions (17163794)
- myocarditis
- dilated cardiomyopathy
- pericardial effusion
- pericarditis
- left ventricle hypertrophy
- fibrocalcific arteriopathy
- aneurysms
- fibrocalcific lesions in medium-sized arteries and small vessels, mainly of the heart and brain
- vasculitis
- chronic inflammatory infiltrates in the the vasa vasorum of large arteries leukocytoclastic vasculitis
central nervous system infections
AIDS dementia
adult-type atherosclerosis
cachexia
See also
metabolic-dyslipemic syndrome induced by the HAART therapy
- subepericardial, periadrenal, and peripancreatic fat deposits
References
O’Brien SJ, Nelson GW. Human genes that limit AIDS. Nat Genet. 2004 Jun;36(6):565-74. PMID: 15167933
Winkler C, An P, O’Brien SJ. Patterns of ethnic diversity among the genes that influence AIDS. Hum Mol Genet. 2004 Apr 1;13 Spec No 1:R9-19. PMID: 14764621