Cerebellar degeneration and immune thrombocytopenic purpura associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV).
Cerebellar disorders associated with HIV infection are usually caused by opportunistic infections, central nervous system lymphoma, and toxic effects of medicines, nutritional and metabolic disorders, and cerebrovascular disease. We present an unusual association of cerebellar degeneration and immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a 28-years-old woman HIV infected. An autoimmune aetiology is likely.
Godeiro-Júnior
Clécio de Oliveira
Cde O
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Napoleão de Barros 566/93, SP, Brazil. cleciojunior@yahoo.com.br
Felício
André Carvalho
AC
Barsottini
Orlando Graziani Povoas
OG
Gabbai
Alberto Alain
AA
D000328:Adult; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D015497:HIV-1; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D011697:Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy