HIV infection is associated with reduced pulmonary diffusing capacity

Kristina Crothers1, Kathleen McGinnis, Eric Kleerup

  • 1*Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; †Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ‡Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; §Department of Medicine, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) and Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ‖Department of Medicine, West Los Angeles VAMC and David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA; ¶Department of Medicine, James J. Peters Bronx VAMC, Bronx, NY; #Department of Medicine, Michael E. DeBakey Houston VAMC and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; **Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ††Department of Medicine, Clinical Trials and Survey Corporation, Owings Mills, MD; ‡‡Department of Medicine, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH; §§Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ‖‖Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY; ¶¶Departments of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology; and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; and ##Departments of Medicine and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

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