Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy presenting as human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV)-associated dementia

Neurology. 1997 Jul;49(1):263-5. doi: 10.1212/wnl.49.1.263.

Abstract

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a demyelinating disorder of the CNS that usually causes hemiparesis or hemianopsia. Dementia occurs in combination with other neurologic abnormalities. We report a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV)-infected man whose only manifestation of proven PML was dementia that was clinically indistinguishable from HIV-associated dementia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • AIDS Dementia Complex / pathology*
  • Adult
  • Brain / pathology
  • Humans
  • Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal / pathology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male