Toxoplasmic encephalitis: role of Human Leucocyte Antigens/alleles associated with rapid progression to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Rodrigues, Maria de Lourdes Veronese; Deghaide, Neifi Hassan Saloum; Figueiredo, José Fernando de Castro; Menezes, Marcelo Bezerra de; Demarco, Ana Lúcia G.; Donadi, Eduardo Antônio; Fernandes, Ana Paula

doi:10.1016/j.bjid.2015.10.010

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“…Equal density shadow of nodes combined with low density shadow of edema around nodes, large patchy equal density shadow with ring shape in low density region are observed stratum of brain by CT. Nodes, ring shapes of enhanced signal of lesions, obvious different signals of edema, occupying effect are detected by enhanced scanning [14]. MRI shows T1WI of lesions with low signal intensity, T2WI with an intermediate one, edema around lesions with a high one.…”

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Preliminary Study of Nine HIV-Associated Central Nervous System Complications from Imaging Analysis

Liu¹

2019

Med Case Rep J

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The central nervous system (CNS) is preferentially vulnerable to HIV infection with respect of chronic exposure to HIV in the brain as well as combination infection of HIV and opportunistic pathogens that can lead to cognitive impairment. In order to shed light of characterizations of HIVassociated CNS complications, 9 HIV-associated CNS complications were analyzed by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In the 9 cases, characterizations of HIV-associated encephalitis, HIV-associated encephalitis of toxoplasma infection, cytomegalovirus infection, cryptococcosis infection and herpes simplex infection, HIVassociated white matter complication, HIV-associated cerebral infarction, HIV-associated cerebral encephalitis of syphilis infection, and HIVassociated cerebral glioma were detected by imaging. These HIV-associated CNS complications not only respectively showed few common features of non-HIV-associated CNS complications, but exhibited specific traits. HIVassociated CNS complications showed typical clinical and radiological presentations are sufficient to establish the diagnosis.

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confidence: 98%