Parkinsonism in HIV encephalopathy
โ Scribed by Masami Tanaka; Kotaro Endo; Takashi Suzuki; Akiyoshi Kakita; Hitoshi Takahashi; Tetsutaro Sata
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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## Abstract We describe six patients with parkinsonism and another 10 patients with parkinsonian features with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. In 50% of these patients, the symptoms were precipitated by neuroleptics. In the remaining patients, no obvious cause other than HIV infection
Thirty-one serum and CSF samples from 21 HIV-antibody-positive patients with neurological deficits were examined to prove or exclude intrathecal production of HIV antibodies. By dilution, sera were adjusted to the IgG concentration of the corresponding CSF samples. Both samples were then serially di