Title: Echocardiography Profile in HIV Patients and Its Correlation with CD4 Count and who Clinical Staging
Authors: Raj Kumar Verma, Mridul Chaturvedi, Rohit Baiswar, Naveen Sachan, Anjana Pandey
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i5.168
Abstract
With the global epidemic of HIV, developing countries like India are having a rapid surge in the number of HIV cases. An effective strategy needs to be formulated for the management of HIV which has multisystem involvement. Unfortunately, due to poor laboratory infrastructure in many parts of the country CD4 testing, both initial and repeat, in patients of HIV who have cardiac involvement, is not possible. Present study done in the PG Department of Medicine and Cardiology Department of Sarojini Naidu Medical College (Agra, U.P.) uses both the CD4 count and the WHO clinical stage of HIV patients to correlate with the echocardiographic abnormalities. It is concluded that besides the CD4 count, the echocardiographic abnormalities correlate very well with the WHO clinical stage of the patient. Hence, all patients with low CD4 count and those in late clinical stages should be screened for cardiovascular abnormalities
Keywords: 2D Echocardiography, HIV, CD4 count, WHO clinical stage.
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