PMID: 11921733Mar 30, 2002Paper

Central nervous system disorders in AIDS patients

Przegla̧d epidemiologiczny
M M MianJ Cianciara

Abstract

A number of 95 AIDS patients with neurological signs and symptoms hospitalised at the Department of Hepatology and AIDS (in the years 1989-97) were analysed. Sixty patients showed abnormal EEG. Computer assisted tomography (CT) revealed organic changes in them. The remaining 35 patients showed no changes in EEG and CT scan but in 22 of them examination of cerebro-spinal fluid revealed meningoencephalitis of different origin. Moreover, central nervous system autopsy of 55 patients (who had died of AIDS in the years 1986-97) showed macroscopic and/or microscopic changes in 48 out of them (87%).

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