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INTRODUCTION:Neurotoxoplasmosis (NTX) is one of the commonest opportunist infections in patients infected by the human immunodeficiency virus. It presents with a variety of clinical features in the immunocompromised patient. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We made a horizontal retrospective descriptive study of 88 patients with a diagnosis of NTX treated in the Pedro Kour Institute during a three years period. Our aim was to find which were the most common forms of clinical presentation in our setting and to evaluate the use of paraclinical examinations in reaching the presumptive diagnosis. The patients had clinical examinations, CSF studies, detection of indirect immunofluorescence titres (IFI) for Toxoplasma, imaging studies (CAT) and lymphocyte counts. RESULTS:The commonest symptoms were: headache in 79%, fever in 55.68%, motor defect in 44.31% and disorders of consciousness in 29.54% of the patients. The IFI titres were negative in 31.54% of the patients, between 1/16 and 1/32 in 38.34% and between 1/64 and 1/1,024 in only 30.07% of cases. The T CD4+ lymphocyte count was less than 200 cells in 66.7% of the patients; 72% of imaging studies showed typical lesions, in association with other disorders in 38% of the cases (lymphomas, cryptococcosis, tuberculous meningoencephalitis and cytomegalovirus encephalitis). CONCLUSIONS:NTX in a patient with AIDS often presents in our setting with headache and fever, motor deficit and alterations of consciousness. The diagnosis should be confirmed by immunological or imaging studies since in this disease serology and CSF studies are less specific.
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Rev Neuroljournal_title
Revista de neurologiaauthors
Hernández-González E,Zamora F,Barnés J,Bender JE,Rodríguez-Delgado F,Millán-Marcelo JCsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-04-01 00:00:00pages
618-21issue
7eissn
0210-0010issn
1576-6578pii
rn2001434journal_volume
34pub_type
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