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Cardiac Surgery and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

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Cardiovascular Disease in AIDS

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Twenty years after the first antibody test for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) became available in Western countries. Although cardiac surgery in HIV-infected patients remains rare — 0.2% of interventions with extracorporeal circulation (ECC) in La Pitié Institute — and has some particularities, the majority of cardiac surgeons believe that the surgical strategies and techniques should be the same for HIV-infected patients as for other patients.

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    N. Bonnet, P. Leprince, S. Varnous & I. Gandjbakhch

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Bonnet, N., Leprince, P., Varnous, S., Gandjbakhch, I. (2009). Cardiac Surgery and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. In: Barbaro, G., Boccara, F. (eds) Cardiovascular Disease in AIDS. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0761-1_15

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