Intracranial Arterial Dissection Related to HIV Infection. A Case Report with Histology.
There are many reasons for patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to develop cerebrovascular disease. The HIV virus itself however may be a cause of vessel wall pathology. We present a clinical and pathological study of a patient who was HIV positive and presented with a subarachnoid haemorrhage. Cerebral angiography and later histology confirm that there was extensive vessel wall injury with dissection and a false aneurysm of the right middle cerebral artery.
Lefeuvre
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Division of Neurosurgery, University of Cape Town; South Africa.
Liebenberg
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Taylor
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