Table 1. Clinical Characteristic Of Patients With HIV-Associated Cardiomyopathy (HIVAC), Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy (IDCM) And Heart Transplant Recipients (HTX) Who Were Studied With Endomyocardial Biopsy.
| HIVAC (n = 14) | iDCM (n = 8) | HTx (n = 11) | p-value‡ | |
| Median age in years (range) | 40 (27–63) | 43.5 (31–54) | 50 (26–69) | NS* |
| Male (%) | 58 | 75 | 82 | 0.44 |
| Median CD4 + T-cell count (cells/mm3) | 253 (200–344) | not applicable | not applicable | |
| Median HIV load, (copies/ml) | 155 000 (28 000-265 000) | not applicable | not applicable | |
| Median LVEF (%) | 30.6 (23–35) | 27 (13.5–29) | 56.5 (46.8–59.0) | < 0.0001 |
| Median duration of illness (weeks) | 18 (14.5–26) | 14 (7–18) | 18.5 (6–21.8) | 0.3 |
‡p-value: Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables, Kruskal-Wallis test for continuous variables. LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction, NS, not significant.