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Assessment of ventricular diastolic function in AIDS patients from Congo: a Doppler echocardiographic study

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Why the study?

Does HIV infection cause asymptomatic left ventricular diastolic dysfunction as assessed by echocardiography?

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Does HIV infection cause asymptomatic left ventricular diastolic dysfunction as assessed by echocardiography?

Population

49 consecutive African patients infected with HIV (30 HIV positive carriers and 19 AIDS patients) and 58 controls, all without a medical history of cardiovascular abnormalities.

Intervention

M mode, cross sectional, and Doppler echocardiography

Comparator

Healthy controls (n=58) without a medical history of cardiovascular abnormalities

Outcome

Left ventricular diastolic and systolic function (including isovolumic relaxation time, peak early filling velocity, and late velocity)surrogate

Echocardiography reveals a high prevalence of asymptomatic left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in HIV-infected patients, which worsens as the disease progresses to AIDS.

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Implication

May support echocardiographic screening in HIV; hypothesis-generating for progression-related worsening, needing prospective confirmation.

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Longo‐Mbenza et al. (1998) studied this question.

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Implication

May support echocardiographic screening in HIV; hypothesis-generating for progression-related worsening, needing prospective confirmation.

Assessment of ventricular diastolic function in AIDS patients from Congo: a Doppler echocardiographic study

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Implication

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Assessment of ventricular diastolic function in AIDS patients from Congo: a Doppler echocardiographic study

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Implication

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