Inopportune Opportunism: First Diagnosis of AIDS in New-Onset Viral Myocarditis

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Giovanni Peretto Massimo Slavich

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Giovanni Peretto
Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmology, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and University, Milan, Italy

A B S T R A C T

Opportunistic infections from cytomegalovirus (CMV) are a possible manifestation of late-stage AIDS. We present a case of acute CMV myocarditis, which eventually allowed for the diagnosis of a previously unknown HIV infection.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Sat 29, Jun 2019
Accepted: Wed 31, Jul 2019
Published: Mon 12, Aug 2019

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© 2023 Giovanni Peretto. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JICOA.2019.03.04