Does HIV infection affect diastolic function and left ventricular mass in asymptomatic patients?
Contemporary asymptomatic patients with HIV manifest mild functional and morphological cardiac abnormalities independent of traditional risk factors.
HIV-infected patients had a higher prevalence of diastolic dysfunction and higher left ventricular mass index compared with controls. These differences were not readily explained by differences in traditional risk factors and were independently associated with HIV infection. These results suggest that contemporary asymptomatic patients with HIV manifest mild functional and morphological cardiac abnormalities, which are independently associated with HIV infection.
Hsue et al. (Sat,) studied this question.