Interferon Alfa–Induced Cardiac Dysfunction
To the Editor: Deyton et al. (Nov. 2 issue) 1 report that reversible left ventricular dysfunction developed in three patients with AIDS while they were being treated with interferon alfa for Kaposi's sarcoma. We agree that the temporal relation between interferon therapy and the development and...
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Published in | The New England journal of medicine Vol. 322; no. 20; p. 1469 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Massachusetts Medical Society
17.05.1990
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Summary: | To the Editor:
Deyton et al. (Nov. 2 issue)
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report that reversible left ventricular dysfunction developed in three patients with AIDS while they were being treated with interferon alfa for Kaposi's sarcoma. We agree that the temporal relation between interferon therapy and the development and resolution of left ventricular dysfunction appears to implicate interferon as the factor most likely to explain the cardiac dysfunction in these patients.
However, the authors incorrectly describe our report
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of a patient with renal-cell carcinoma in whom dilated cardiomyopathy developed while she was receiving interferon therapy. She neither had chronic myelogenous leukemia nor died of . . . |
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ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJM199005173222014 |