[Clinical utility of HIV viral load assessment in cerebral spinal fluid, a case report]

Rev Chilena Infectol. 2018;35(5):601-605. doi: 10.4067/s0716-10182018000500601.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Detection of virus in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in HIV-infected patients with HIV viral load (VL) undetectable in plasma has been termed viral escape. These leaks may be asymptomatic from a neurological point of view, similar to plasma blips, or associated with neurological disease, with discordant VL between plasma and CSF, and may be evidence of a compartmentalization of the virus and the possibility of identifying quasispecies with mutations that confer resistance to ART. We present the case of a man with AIDS and disseminated tuberculosis who presented neurological symptomatology evidenced by headache and convulsive syndrome, who presented a discordance between plasma and CSF HIV VL; the genotypic test of the virus, obtained by lumbar puncture, identified new mutations that determined a change in ART with subsequent satisfactory evolution.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid / virology*
  • HIV Infections / cerebrospinal fluid*
  • HIV Infections / complications
  • HIV-1 / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mutation / genetics
  • RNA, Viral / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Tuberculosis, Meningeal / complications
  • Tuberculosis, Meningeal / diagnosis*
  • Viral Load*

Substances

  • RNA, Viral