ABSTRACT

From arrival of the therapy antiretroviral highly effective, the survival of the patients with virus of human immunodeficiency themselves there is augmented exponentially; is necessary to revise the chronic pathologies as the arterial pulmonary hypertension that are presented like new pathologies and that can deteriorate the clinical evolution of this group of patients.

KEYWORDS

HIV, pulmonary hypertension, cor pulmonale.

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