Severe Coronary Artery Disease in a Person Living with HIV

The pathophysiology of accelerated atherosclerosis in people living with Human Immunofediciency virus (HIV) is complex. Coronary artery disease (CAD) has become an important cause of mortality in these patients. They often have atypical symptoms, leading to frequently missed diagnoses. We report a c...

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Autores principales: Bajdechi, Mircea, Mihai, Cosmin, Scafa-Udriste, Alexandru, Cherry, Ali, Zamfir, Diana, Dumitru, Irina, Cernat, Roxana, Rugina, Sorin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8229972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34200527
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57060595
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author Bajdechi, Mircea
Mihai, Cosmin
Scafa-Udriste, Alexandru
Cherry, Ali
Zamfir, Diana
Dumitru, Irina
Cernat, Roxana
Rugina, Sorin
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Mihai, Cosmin
Scafa-Udriste, Alexandru
Cherry, Ali
Zamfir, Diana
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description The pathophysiology of accelerated atherosclerosis in people living with Human Immunofediciency virus (HIV) is complex. Coronary artery disease (CAD) has become an important cause of mortality in these patients. They often have atypical symptoms, leading to frequently missed diagnoses. We report a case of a 51-year-old male undergoing antiretroviral therapy who was admitted for acute coronary syndrome. He had severe coronary artery disease that involved difficult management.
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spelling pubmed-82299722021-06-26 Severe Coronary Artery Disease in a Person Living with HIV Bajdechi, Mircea Mihai, Cosmin Scafa-Udriste, Alexandru Cherry, Ali Zamfir, Diana Dumitru, Irina Cernat, Roxana Rugina, Sorin Medicina (Kaunas) Case Report The pathophysiology of accelerated atherosclerosis in people living with Human Immunofediciency virus (HIV) is complex. Coronary artery disease (CAD) has become an important cause of mortality in these patients. They often have atypical symptoms, leading to frequently missed diagnoses. We report a case of a 51-year-old male undergoing antiretroviral therapy who was admitted for acute coronary syndrome. He had severe coronary artery disease that involved difficult management. MDPI 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8229972/ /pubmed/34200527 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57060595 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rugina, Sorin
Severe Coronary Artery Disease in a Person Living with HIV
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8229972/
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