GIANT CELL MYOCARDITIS IN HIV INFECTION: A FATAL TANDEM

Abstract

Giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is a rare autoimmune disease with the leading role of T-cell disorder in its pathogenesis. The associations are known of this disease with various autoimmunities, tumors, drug hypersensitivity. In the literary data there are just single cases of HCM development in HIV infected patients. The article presents clinical case and provides some discussion on the pathogenesis of HCM, making to think of HIV infection as one of possible causes of its development.

Keywords

• giant cell myocarditis
• hiv infection