Pulmonary hypertension and HIV infection: new observations and review of the syndrome
De Chadarévian, J.P.; Lischner, H.W.; Karmazin, N.; Pawel, B.R.; Schultz, T.E.
Modern Pathology An Official Journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Inc 7(6): 685-689
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0893-3952 PMID: 7991528 Document Number: 437115
This report describes the case of a 14-yr-old hemophiliac who died of complications of primary pulmonary hypertension. He was infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. The autopsy disclosed that he also had membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type III and hepatic cirrhosis, both clinically unsuspected. This is the second report describing the association of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type III and primary pulmonary hypertension in an HIV-infected patient and the first to consider cirrhosis as a possible additional element of the syndrome.