title: Brainstem ocular motility defects and AIDS.
abstract: Ocular motility manifestations of focal brainstem dysfunction were the initial clinical features in three patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. These included conjugate gaze palsy with ipsilateral facial paresis, bilateral abducens palsy and a gaze paresis, and homolateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia and abducens nerve paresis. Two patients had focal brainstem lesions as evidenced on neuroimaging. The third showed concurrent infection with Treponema pallidum.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine 33101.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Hamed
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Schatz
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Galetta
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D001933:Brain Stem; D004172:Diplopia / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D009894:Opportunistic Infections; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000150:complications