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MEDISAN

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Abstract

LAMOTTE CASTILLO, José Antonio. Characterization of aids patients with infections of the central nervous system. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.4, pp.469-475. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross sectional study of 44 seropositive patients to HIV/aids, assisted in the Center for Care to people with HIV and in the provincial department of patients with HIV/aids from "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from January, 1992 to December, 2012, in order to determine the incidence of infections to the central nervous system and their clinical characteristics in these affected patients. In the series the intellectual deterioration prevailed associated to fever and migraine. In those affected patients with low count of lymphocytes CD4, the neurotoxoplasmosis, meningitis due to cryptococus, as well as the combination of both prevailed; for the first one the motor deficiency was significant and in the second one the meningeal signs didn't prevail. In spite of the positive response to the treatment neurotoxoplasmosis was the most recurrent infection

Keywords : human immunodeficiency virus/aids; central nervous system; intellectual deterioration; neurotoxoplasmosis; meningitis due to cryptococus; secondary health care.

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