HIV- AND TUBERCULOSIS-ASSOCIATED PERICARDITIS
Journal: The Bulletin of Contemporary Clinical Medicine
Year: 2024

Introduction. HIV infection, despite the measures taken, continues to spread throughout the world. Unfavorable course of diseases is often determined by some concomitant pathologies. Among HIV-infected patients, tuberculosis is the most common disease forming the comorbid condition named “TB/HIV” that reaches more than a half of all the cases of newly diagnosed tuberculosis in some regions of Russia. In recent years, due to the increase in the HIV- infected patients’ life expectancy based on ant