title: [Demyelinating disease in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients without severe immunodepression].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients who did not have severe immunodepression were analysed for multiple demyelinating lesions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients with a CD4 greater than 200/μL were selected after a search was made in a computerised data base.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four patients were found, three were co-infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), with one of them on treatment with peg-interferón α-2b and ribavirin.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  HIV infected patients can develop demyelinating disease without having severe immunodepression, probably favoured by other factors, such as co-infection wIth HCV.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, España. mirestmun@gmail.com
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Estébanez-Muñoz
authors.forename: Maria Luisa
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Montes
authors.forename: Pilar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Seco
authors.forename: Aranzazu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Royo-Orejas
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: González-García
authors.forename: José Ramón
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Arribas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000821:virology*; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies