Cardiomyopathy, Myocarditis, Pericarditis, and Endocarditis
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PATHOGENS
- HIV: myocarditis (possibly) and increased inflammation leading to myocardial fibrosis and steatosis (diastolic and systolic heart failure) and atherosclerosis
- Increasing diastolic dysfunction (symptomatic and asymptomatic), attributed to older age and chronic HTN
- Cytomegalovirus: myocarditis
- Cryptococcus neoformans: myocarditis
- Epstein-Barr virus: myocarditis (rare)
- Herpes simplex virus: myocarditis
- HHV-8: associated with pulmonary hypertension. KS-related pericardial effusion, cardiac tumors
- Mycobacterium spp.: pericarditis, myocarditis [TB>>MAI]
- Staphylococcus spp.: endocarditis, purulent pericarditis
- Streptococcus pneumoniae: purulent pericarditis
- Toxoplasma gondii: myocarditis
- Enterovirus (coxsackie, echovirus): myocarditis, pericarditis
- Nocardia spp.: pericarditis
- Histoplasma capsulatum: pericarditis
- Cryptococcus neoformans: pericarditis
- HIV: myocarditis
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PATHOGENS
- HIV: myocarditis (possibly) and increased inflammation leading to myocardial fibrosis and steatosis (diastolic and systolic heart failure) and atherosclerosis
- Increasing diastolic dysfunction (symptomatic and asymptomatic), attributed to older age and chronic HTN
- Cytomegalovirus: myocarditis
- Cryptococcus neoformans: myocarditis
- Epstein-Barr virus: myocarditis (rare)
- Herpes simplex virus: myocarditis
- HHV-8: associated with pulmonary hypertension. KS-related pericardial effusion, cardiac tumors
- Mycobacterium spp.: pericarditis, myocarditis [TB>>MAI]
- Staphylococcus spp.: endocarditis, purulent pericarditis
- Streptococcus pneumoniae: purulent pericarditis
- Toxoplasma gondii: myocarditis
- Enterovirus (coxsackie, echovirus): myocarditis, pericarditis
- Nocardia spp.: pericarditis
- Histoplasma capsulatum: pericarditis
- Cryptococcus neoformans: pericarditis
- HIV: myocarditis
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