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To the Editor: Coronary disease has been reported previously in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who are receiving protease inhibitors¹ or who are also infected with cytomegalovirus.^2,3 Dilated cardiomyopathy has also been described in patients with AIDS.⁴ We report a case of fatal myocardial infarction caused by acute coronary arteritis in a patient infected with HIV.

A 32-year-old homosexual man was admitted to the hospital with an anterior Q-wave infarction. The patient had been known to be positive for HIV type 1 (HIV-1) since 1994 and had not received reverse-transcriptase inhibitors or protease inhibitors since 1998. His . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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