title: Neurological presentations of AIDS--when to test for HIV.
abstract: Nine of 122 patients dead from AIDS in central London presented with neurological disease, confirmed pathologically in seven. Seven had no other major systemic manifestations. AIDS needs to be considered in the differential diagnosis of meningitis, dementia, diffuse and focal encephalopathies, brainstem syndromes, myelopathy, visual failure and peripheral nerve syndromes. As AIDS becomes more widespread there will be an increasing need for diagnostic HIV testing in many neurological syndromes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Westminster Hospital, London.
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Fuller
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Guiloff
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gazzard
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Harcourt-Webster
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scarvilli
mesh_terms: D015526:AIDS Dementia Complex / Q000209:etiology; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000150:complications; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009187:Myelitis / Q000150:complications; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed