GIANT CELL MYOCARDITIS IN HIV INFECTION: A FATAL TANDEM

Autor: S. Yu. Nikulina, P. A. Shesternya, A. K. Kirichenko, A. A. Chernova, D. A. Brusentsov, V. A. Shulman
Jazyk: ruština
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Российский кардиологический журнал, Vol 0, Iss 2, Pp 129-133 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1560-4071
2618-7620
DOI: 10.15829/1560-4071-2018-2-129-133
Popis: Giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is a rare autoimmune disease with the leading role of T-cell disorder in its pathogenesis. The associations are known of this disease with various autoimmunities, tumors, drug hypersensitivity. In the literary data there are just single cases of HCM development in HIV infected patients. The article presents clinical case and provides some discussion on the pathogenesis of HCM, making to think of HIV infection as one of possible causes of its development.
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