HIV - Late clinical manifestations, neurological

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Several neurological complications can occur in AIDS patients. These can be subdivided into diseases induced by HIV itself, by opportunistic diseases or by medication.
  • Acute aseptic HIV-meningitis, chronic HIV-meningitis, HIV encephalopathy (AIDS dementia), vacuolar myelopathy, predominantly sensory neuropathy, inflammatory demyelinising polyneuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex, myopathy.
  • Cerebral toxoplasmosis, Cryptococcus meningitis, tuberculous meningitis, CMV retinitis-encephalitis-radiculitis, herpes encephalitis, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (JC virus), neurosyphilis, primary cerebral lymphoma, metastatic systemic lymphoma.
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Category: AIDS , Conditions and Diseases , Health , HIV , Immune Disorders , JC virus , Medical Subject Notes , Meningitis , Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

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