Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2005)

Human Herpesvirus 8 and Pulmonary Hypertension

  • Emanuele Nicastri,
  • Carmine Dario Vizza,
  • Fabrizio Carletti,
  • Stefania Cicalini,
  • Roberto Badagliacca,
  • Roberto Poscia,
  • Giuseppe Ippolito,
  • Francesco Fedele,
  • Nicola Petrosillo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1109.040880
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 9
pp. 1480 – 1482

Abstract

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Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) antibodies were detected in 1 of 33 patients with pulmonary hypertension (including in 1 of 16 with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension), 5 of 29 with cystic fibrosis, and 3 of 13 with interstitial lung disease. No relationship between HHV-8 infection and pulmonary hypertension was found.

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