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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
27
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-1-14
pubmed:abstractText
A variety of the central nervous system lesions may cause a diffuse encephalopathy in AIDS patients. Apart from viral encephalitides already described in part one, metabolic encephalopathies are a classical cause of diffuse brain dysfunction and are frequent at the terminal stage of the disease. Atypical forms of some infectious, vascular or tumoural processes which usually determine focal lesions, may cause diffuse encephalopathies. These forms are not exceptional in AIDS. The association in the same patient of lesions due to different agents is the rule. Whereas most of the neurological complications of AIDS occur late in the course of the disease, symptomatic, usually transient encephalopathies have been described in the early stages of HIV infection in rare cases. The authors conclude by proposing a management plan, since therapeutic advances have raised some hopes of improvement and even regression of some of these disorders in a few cases, so that physicians do not systematically give up when an AIDS patient presents with a diffuse encephalopathy.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0755-4982
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1270-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
[Diagnosis of diffuse encephalopathies in adults with HIV infection. 2].
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire d'Anatomie pathologique (Neuropathologie), Hôpital Raymond Poincaré et Faculté de Médecine Paris-Ouest, Garches.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't