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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Varun Kumar, M.B.B.S.; Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, M.B.B.S.

Overview

A wide variety of cardiovascular complications are seen in advanced HIV infected patients. The most common are:


Epidemiology and demographics

Pericardial diseases in the form of pericardial effusion or cardiac tamponade[5][7][8][9] have been recognized as a complication since HIV infection was first reported in 1981.

  • In a small autopsy study, 24% cases reported major cardiac pathology [10].
  • The incidence of pericardial effusion in patients with asymptomatic AIDS was 11% per year before the introduction of effective highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The 6 month survival rate of AIDS patients with effusion was significantly shorter (36%) than the survival rate without effusions (93%). This shortened survival rate remained statistically significant after adjustment for lead-time bias and was independent of CD4 count and albumin level[5].
  • The incidence of AIDS-related cardiac disease is very high in Africa in comparison to that seen in the developed countries. In the period from 1993 to 1999 in Burkina Faso, 79% of AIDS patients exhibited cardiac involvement, whereas in an Italian study in the period from 1992 to 1995, the incidence of AIDS-related cardiac disease was 6.5%[11].


Pathophysiology

Patients with advanced HIV have pericardial involvement at some point and the most common abnormality is pericardial effusion[12].

  • Asymptomatic effusions are mostly small and idiopathic.
  • In advanced HIV disease, effusions are a part of generalized seroeffusive process involving pleural and peritoneal surfaces, possibly related to enhanced cytokine expression, resulting in moderate to large effusions.
  • Congestive heart failure, Kaposi sarcoma, and Tuberculosis are independently associated with moderate to large effusions.


Etiology

It is often difficult to identify the etiology of pericardial effusion in HIV-infected patients. The common organisms isolated are:

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis which is the most common etiology for pericardial effusion in African HIV-infected patients.[13][14]
  • Staphylococcus aureus [15] [16],
  • Cryptococcus neoformans,[17] and
  • Herpes simplex [18].


Supportive trial data:

  • A retrospective study [19] of 29 patients with AIDS-related pericardial effusion who underwent fluid cultures and pericardial biopsy, etiology was established only in 7% patients. The causes included:
  • Another study that evaluated pericardial effusions in 17 patients with HIV [4], revealed etiologic evidence in 5 patients of which 2 were found to have lymphoma, and 1 each had staphylococcus aureus, mycobacterium tuberculosis, and fungal infection.


Diagnosis

History and symptoms:

The frequency and severity of the above symptoms varies with the stage of the infection and the degree of involvement of the pericardium.

  • Majority of the are asymptomatic and present with an increase in the cardiac silhouette on chest x-ray.
  • Symptomatic patients present with the following:

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Physical Examination:

Vitals:


Neck:

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Chest:

  • Ewart's sign: Dullness to percussion beneath the angle of left scapula from compression of the left lung by pericardial fluid may be present.
  • Pericardial knock

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Abdomen:

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Extremities: Ankle edema




References

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  2. Himelman RB, Chung WS, Chernoff DN, Schiller NB, Hollander H (1989) Cardiac manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus infection: a two-dimensional echocardiographic study. J Am Coll Cardiol 13 (5):1030-6. PMID: 2926051
  3. De Castro S, Migliau G, Silvestri A, D'Amati G, Giannantoni P, Cartoni D et al. (1992) Heart involvement in AIDS: a prospective study during various stages of the disease. Eur Heart J 13 (11):1452-9. PMID: 1464334
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  8. Karve MM, Murali MR, Shah HM, Phelps KR (1992). "Rapid evolution of cardiac tamponade due to bacterial pericarditis in two patients with HIV-1 infection". Chest. 101 (5): 1461–3. PMID 1582323.
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  15. Stechel RP, Cooper DJ, Greenspan J, Pizzarello RA, Tenenbaum MJ (1986) Staphylococcal pericarditis in a homosexual patient with AIDS-related complex. N Y State J Med 86 (11):592-3. PMID: 3467225
  16. Decker CF, Tuazon CU (1994) Staphylococcus aureus pericarditis in HIV-infected patients. Chest 105 (2):615-6. PMID: 8306779
  17. Schuster M, Valentine F, Holzman R (1985) Cryptococcal pericarditis in an intravenous drug abuser. J Infect Dis 152 (4):842. PMID: 4045235
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