TY - JOUR
AU - Hou, YD
AB - Correspondence AIDS 2008, 22:2219–2224 Pulmonary arterial hypertension and HIV infection In their recent article on the role of HIV and human Italian central region with an estimated 5000 HIV-infected herpes virus-8 (HHV-8) infection in pulmonary arterial patients, we enrolled 60 patients who were diagnosed hypertension (PAH), Hsue et al. [1] found a high as having pulmonary hypertension after undergoing a prevalence of elevated pulmonary artery systolic pressure diagnostic algorithm for a clinical suspicion of pulmonary (PASP) in HIV-infected persons as compared with HIV- hypertension. Nineteen out of 60 patients (0.4%) were negative controls, suggesting a causal role of HIV in PAH, diagnosed as having HIV–PAH according to the Venice whereas no association between HHV-8 infection and classification of pulmonary hypertension [6]. Secondary elevated PASP in HIV-infected individuals was found. causes of pulmonary hypertension were identified in the remaining 41 patients. An ad interim analysis of our cohort Although we also found no association between HHV-8 of patients was previously published [7]. and PAH [2], some observations should be made concerning the methods employed in their study. Moreover, we are carrying out a study on HIV-infected outpatients with no symptoms or signs of cardiopul- First, the authors calculated PASP only 
TI - A study of rectal mucosa administration of IL-2 in treatment of HIV/AIDS: a novel method for the treatment of HIV/AIDS
JF - AIDS
DO - 10.1097/QAD.0b013e328314b60f
DA - 2008-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/a-study-of-rectal-mucosa-administration-of-il-2-in-treatment-of-hiv-lQ5EJMC8yX
SP - 2222–2224-2222&ndash
EP - ndash;2224-2222–2224
VL - 22
IS - 16
DP - DeepDyve
ER -