Meeting Summary

Purpose:

This meeting was planned, organized and conducted by Lan-Hsiang Wang, Ph.D., of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Jag H. Khalsa, Ph.D., of the Center on AIDS and Other Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse (CAMCODA), within the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH. A group of nationally and internationally recognized clinicians and scientists, supported by the NHLBI and NIDA presented and discussed;

• Current data on the etiology and underlying pathophysiology of cardiovascular complications of HIV/AIDS, substance abuse (cocaine, alcohol), and HIV infection,
  
  
• In vitro tests and in vivo models for the study of cardiovascular complications (e.g., cardiomyopathy) of HIV and substance abuse,
  
  
• Endothelial function in HIV infection,
  
  
• The problems of design and conducting such studies in clinical populations.
  
  

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