Pulmonary Hypertension In An Elderly HIV-infected Veteran Population

Pulmonary hypertension may occur as a co-morbid disease in HIV. We examined the characteristics of our HIV infected veterans with pulmonary hypertension and compared them with a control group of HIV infected patients without pulmonary hypertension. Among our cohort, patients were diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension at a mean age of 49.8 y 11.0y. This diagnosis came about 8.1y 6.7y after the diagnosis of HIV. Our pulmonary hypertension patients lived for about 3.4 3.0y after their pulmonary hypertension diagnosis. The presence of pulmonary hypertension in HIV infection confers an increased risk of mortality.