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Volume 349:1388-1389 October 2, 2003 Number 14
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Cardiac Transplantation in an HIV-1–Infected Patient

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To the Editor: Calabrese et al. (June 5 issue)1 describe cardiac transplantation in a patient with a 15-year history of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection and multiple opportunistic infections who had dilated cardiomyopathy due to daunorubicin therapy. Two years ago, we performed a cardiac transplantation in a 42-year-old man with a two-year history of HIV infection, an undetectable viral load, a CD4 cell count of 637 per cubic millimeter, and no history of opportunistic infections; the patient had dilated cardiomyopathy and an ejection fraction of 10 percent. The patient's hospital course was unremarkable, and he was discharged on . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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