CNS INFECTIONS-HIV

SUMMARY

1. Patients get subacute encephalitis, peripheral neuropathies including mononeuritis multiplex, vacuolar myelopathy, and aseptic meningitis.

2. HIV- associated dementia (HAD) - subacute dementia with loss of retentive memory, inattentiveness, language disorder, and apathy.

3. Know that the differential diagnoses include progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, toxoplasmosis, and lymphomas.

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