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Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Dispatch

Human Herpesvirus 8 and Pulmonary Hypertension

Emanuele Nicastri*Comments to Author , Carmine Dario Vizza†, Fabrizio Carletti*, Stefania Cicalini*, Roberto Badagliacca†, Roberto Poscia†, Giuseppe Ippolito*, Francesco Fedele†, and Nicola Petrosillo*
Author affiliations: *National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy; †"La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy

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Table

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) seroprevalence among candidate patients for lung transplantation

Diagnosis Patients Female sex (%) Median age (range) HHV-8 seroprevalence (%)
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)

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