We describe a 33-year-old homosexual man with a steroid-responsive, remitting and relapsing leukoencephalopathy associated with recent human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) seroconversion. Biopsy of a parieto-occipital lesion revealed demyelination and astrogliosis with focal necrosis. Detailed investigations demonstrated no pathogens in the brain other than HIV-1. This patient illustrates that a neurological disorder clinically indistinguishable from multiple sclerosis may be the presenting manifestation of HIV-1 infection and may occur in the absence of clinically significant immunosuppression.
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
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Nursing and Health Professions
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Immunology and Microbiology
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Psychology
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Attention Score in Context
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 February 2010.
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#8,236,607
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#3,095
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#22,658
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#275
of 776 outputs
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