antiarrhythmic/hepatitis

This group of multidisciplinary investigators has discovered increased levels of immune activation among HIV-1-uninfected active injection drug users (IDUs) when compared to non-IDU controls . The vast majority (80%) are also infected with HCV. Active injectors have high levels of immune activation

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) accounts for approximately 50% of all cardiac death, representing an estimated annual incidence ranging from 250,000 to 350,000 cases in the United States. The pathophysiologic mechanism for sudden death in the majority of these patients is thought to be ventricular

BACKGROUND Chagas disease (CD) is a permanent threat for almost a quarter of the population of Latin America. Although the disease has been described in almost all Central and South America, clinical presentation and epidemiological characteristics are highly variable among the different endemic