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HIV-Associated Coronary Arteritis in a Patient with Fatal Myocardial Infarction[Barbaro G et al. NEJM 2001; 344: 1799]:The authors report a case of a 32-year-old man with a fatal myocardial infarction. The autopsy showed that 80% of the anterior descending artery and 70% of the circumflex were eroded. In situ hybridization showed HIV sequences within the arterial wall. The implication is that this HIV-associated arteritis was responsible for his MI.
posted 6/14/2001





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