Cardiac diseases in AIDS natural history, complications and prognosis

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Raviteja Guddeti, M.B.B.S. [2]

Complications

Complications from involvement of heart in AIDS include:

• Cardiac tamponade from severe pericardial effusions
• Heart failure from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)
• Systemic embolization and stroke from infective endocarditis
• Valvular regurgitations
• Heart blocks
• Superior vena caval syndrome due to cardiac tumors
• Death

Prognosis

Pericarditis in AIDS is associated with bad prognosis. Mortality is significantly higher with shortened survival.

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