Early seizures in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome without mass lesions.
Generalized tonic-clonic seizures in persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus have usually occurred in the setting of space-occupying lesions in the brain. Seizures have also been known to occur in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related dementia. Two patients, each with prior history of human immunodeficiency virus infection, had seizures early in the course of their illness. Neither patient had evidence of space-occupying lesions or dementia at the time of admission for the seizures. Patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection may present with seizures and may not have a clinically detectable focus for their seizures.
Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY 11501.
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Rosenbaum
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Klein
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Cunha
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012640:Seizures / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging