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Abstract: A common complication of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is being increasingly recognized. Known as AIDS dementia complex, the disorder is characterized by global impairment of intellectual and cognitive functions, personality and behavioral disturbances, and motor dysfun ...
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Abstract: Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) studies were performed in AIDS dementia complex using IMP in 12 patients (and HM-PAO in four of these same patients). In all patients, SPECT revealed either multiple or focal uptake defects, the latter corresponding with focal sign ...
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Abstract: Infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is frequently complicated in its late stages by the AIDS dementia complex, a neurological syndrome characterized by abnormalities in cognition, motor performance, and behavior. This dementia is due partially or wholly to a ...
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Abstract: AIDS Dementia Complex ( ADC ) is now also referred to as HIV-1-associated cognitive/motor complex and in its more severe form involving cognitive impairment as HIV-1-associated dementia . It was recognized early in the AIDS epidemic and there remains to be controversy in its nomenclature and formal diagnosis. ...
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Abstract: This is the first issue of a new journal that will include articles on the practical clinical issues related to characterization, diagnosis and treatment of nervous system complications of HIV-1 infection as well as considerations of more basic issues related to the neurobiology, virology, immunology and pathogenesis o ...
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Abstract: AIDS dementia complex (ADC) occurs in approximately 20-30% of patients with advanced HIV disease. Optimal medical care of the patient with ADC is reliant upon a secure diagnosis along with discussions relating to prognosis and treatment. The approach to diagnosis focuses upon the p ...
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Abstract: Focal and segmental, but not generalized, myoclonus have been described with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. We describe three patients with generalized myoclonus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) dementia complex. In each, myoclonus persisted until death, ...
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Abstract: The central nervous system is considered an early and common target for the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 20 HIV positive patients, including 14 with AIDS- dementia complex (CDC stage IV) and 6 asymptomatic individuals (CDC sta ...
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Abstract: Neurological manifestations of HIV/AIDS is reviewed and discussed. It is noted that neurological manifestations are some of the commonest modes of clinical presentation of HIV/AIDS. At autopsy, the prevalence approaches 100%. These manifestations include: involvement of the higher functions, craniopathies, spinal cord ...
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Abstract: Objective: To further characterize prognostic issues related to the AIDS- dementia complex. Methods: The survival status of all patients admitted to our unit of infectious diseases from January 1990 to December 1993, was traced by chart review or direct contact, and compared with th ...
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Abstract: We sought to determine the clinical significance of macrophage tropic and non-syncytium inducing isolates of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in the cerebrospinal fluid CSF) of patients with and without AIDS dementia complex (ADC). HIV-1 was isolated from the CSF of 31 p ...
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Abstract: To further characterize prognostic issues related to the AIDS- dementia complex. <p><b>METHODS</b>: The survival status of all patients admitted to our unit of infectious diseases from January 1990 to December 1993, was traced by chart review or direct contact, and compared with that of a control group selected from ...
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Abstract: AIDS dementia complex is one of the most common neurological problems associated with HIV-related illness. To date, the nursing care of individual with AIDS dementia complex has not been explored to any extent. As a basis for examining aspects of nursing care, the epidemiology, neu ...
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Abstract: The incidence of AIDS Dementia Complex is something less than 10%. Nonetheless, a majority of people with late stage AIDS will manifest some symptoms. AIDS Dementia Complex was first described in 1986 and was added to the CDC s list of AIDS-defining conditions. Only a small number receive an AIDS diagnosis because of ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Symptoms and signs of AIDS-Dementia Complex and the the way they appear. METHODS: Twenty patients hospitalized in A. Sygros hospital with a diagnosis of AIDS-Dementia have been studied. The clinical & neurological examination, the neuropsychological evaluation, the blood & CSF serological tests, the ...
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Abstract: </p> <p><b>OBJECTIVES</b>: Symptoms and signs of AIDS-Dementia Complex and the the way they appear.</p> <p><b>METHODS</b>: Twenty patients hospitalized in A. Sygros hospital with a diagnosis of AIDS-Dementia have been studied. The clinical & neurological examination, the neuropsychological evaluation, the blood & CSF ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE. Chronic fatigue syndrome is an illness of unknown origin that begins abruptly with a flulike state and has symptoms suggesting both a chronic viral encephalitis and an affective disorder. We compared single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome with thos ...
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Abstract: Care of the person with AIDS dementia complex: medical perspective.. Annu Conf Australas Soc HIV Med. 1997 Nov 13-16;9:65 (abstract no. IS 42) Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/98095108Brew BJ; Department of Neurology and Immunology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Abstract:. AIDS. occurs in approximately 2 ...
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Abstract: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated dementia complex is characterized by difficulties in concentration and memory followed by apathy, social withdrawal and motor dysfunction. Decreased serum vitamin B12 levels occur in up to 20% of patients with acquired immune defici ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE. The objective of this study was threefold: to determine if the frequency of deep white matter changes and cerebral atrophy seen on MR images is significantly different between patients with and without AIDS dementia complex, to determine if certain patterns of white matt ...
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Abstract: We have studied longitudinally ten patients with AIDS encephalopathy with respect to pathogenetic roles of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and cytomegalovirus ( CMV ). Three patients manifested typical AIDS ...
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Abstract: The efficacy of two doses of zidovudine was examined for the treatment of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) dementia complex in a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial conducted at nine study centers. For the initial 16 weeks, 40 subjects with mild to mod ...
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Abstract: AIDS dementia complex is a common neurologic disorder in later stages of HIV-1 infection. Because virus-specific CTL have been shown to contribute to neurologic disease in certain viral illnesses, we examined the cerebrospinal fluid of HIV-1-infected persons with various stages of ...
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Abstract: Ten percent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome cases are reported in people 50 years of age or older. These older people have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus primarily through homosexual contact, heterosexual contact or blood transfusion. AIDS in the elderly can be described as the new great imi ...
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Abstract: <p><b>OBJECTIVES</b>: To evaluate the influence of clinical and epidemiological variables on survival of adult AIDS cases.</p> <p><b>METHODS</b>: Active follow-up of all adult AIDS cases reported prior to 1.1.91 (n = 1219) in Rome and Latium region, from AIDS diagnosis to death or 31.12.91. The Kaplan-Meier method ( ...
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Abstract: Sixty-seven patients with different stages of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (47 CDC group IV, 20 CDC groups II or III) were followed prospectively for a median of 18 months with neurological examination, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computerized tomography (CT) to evaluate the incidence of the ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To evaluate levels of fibronectin (FN) in cerbrospinal fluid (CSF) from AIDS patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders. METHODS: CSF samples were collected from 36 patients with CNS disorders (AIDS dementia complex, leucoencephalopathy, opportunistic infection ...
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Abstract: We evaluated the incidence of AIDS dementia complex (ADC) in groups of patients who acquired infection through different risk behaviours, and attempted to evaluate the possible role of zidovudine ( AZT ) treatment in ...
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Abstract: Twenty-eight HIV-seropositive individuals--11 asymptomatic cases, 8 with lymphadenopathy syndrome (LAS), and 9 with AIDS--were investigated. Clinical staging of the AIDS dementia complex was done in the 9 AIDS patients. The catecholamine metabolites 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol ...
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Abstract: Quinolinic acid is an excitotoxic metabolite and an agonist of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. Of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) who were neurologically normal or exhibited only equivocal and subclinical signs of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ...
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