Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Dispatch
Human Herpesvirus 8 and Pulmonary Hypertension
Table
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) seroprevalence among candidate patients for lung transplantation
Diagnosis | Patients | Female sex (%) | Median age (range) | HHV-8 seroprevalence (%) |
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Patients with pulmonary hypertension | ||||
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension | 16 | 14 (87.5) | 46 (28–74) | 1 (6.3) |
Secondary pulmonary hypertension | 17 | 11 (64.7) | 44 (22–65) | 0 (0) |
Patients without pulmonary hypertension | ||||
Cystic fibrosis | 29 | 9 (31.0) | 23 (14–28) | 5 (17.2) |
Interstitial lung disease | 13 | 3 (23.1) | 47 (43–74) | 3 (23.1) |