1. GIANT CELL MYOCARDITIS IN HIV INFECTION: A FATAL TANDEM
- Author
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S. Yu. Nikulina, P. A. Shesternya, A. K. Kirichenko, A. A. Chernova, D. A. Brusentsov, and V. A. Shulman
- Subjects
Autoimmune disease ,Drug ,hiv infection ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ,GCM transcription factors ,Disease ,medicine.disease ,medicine.disease_cause ,Giant cell myocarditis ,Pathogenesis ,RC666-701 ,Immunology ,medicine ,Hiv infected patients ,Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,giant cell myocarditis ,media_common - Abstract
Giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is a rare autoimmune disease with the leading role of T-cell disorder in its pathogenesis. The associations are known of this disease with various autoimmunities, tumors, drug hypersensitivity. In the literary data there are just single cases of HCM development in HIV infected patients. The article presents clinical case and provides some discussion on the pathogenesis of HCM, making to think of HIV infection as one of possible causes of its development.
- Published
- 2018