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Lead
Philip Diaz
With
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
To delineate the natural history of HIV associated emphysema in the HAART era. To compare the alveolar macrophage proteomes from HIV-seropositive smokers with emphysema to the alveolar macrophages proteomes of both HIV+ smokers without emphysema and HIV- smokers.
To establish whether coinfection with HIV and Hepatitis C results in accelerated lung disease manifested by decrements in forced expiratory volume and carbon monoxide diffusing capacity.
Female subjects on no oral contraception with a negative pregnancy test
Subjects capable of giving written consent
You may not be if
Known medical illness that would preclude bronchoscopy/BAL (e.g. unstable angina, new cardiac arrhythmia). This only pertains to subjects involved in the bronchoscopy phase of the study.
Pregnant females
Prisoners
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