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Post-HAART era
Surat Tanprawate, MD, MSc(Lond.), FRCP(T)
The Northern Neuroscience Center and Division of Neurology
Faculty of Medicine, Chiangmai University
7 Sword in Neurology
3-5-2014, Pullman Hotel, Bangkok
Fact about AIDS and
Neurology
Essential features
Subcortical dementia
Janssen et al. Neurology 1991. 41:778-785
White-matter abnormalities on CT and MRI
Left: CT scan showing ventricular enlargement and white-matter
hypodensity.
Right: FLAIR MRI showing both cortical and central atrophy,
and characteristic conuent signal abnormalities deep within the
white matter.
Operational denition of HIV-D and clinical
features of use for diagnosis
HIV-1 seropositivity
CSF biomarker: beta-2 microglobulin and HIV viral load are not
strongly correlated with ADC severity
Navia B, et al. Ann Neurol 1986, 19:517 524.
Dore GJ, et al. AIDS 2003, 17:15391545.
Cysique L, et al. XIVth International AIDS Conference. Spain 2002.
Subtype of HIV-D in the era of HAART
J.C. McArthur / Journal of Neuroimmunology 157 (2004) 310
Treatment of HIV-D
Periventricular location/
subependymal spread
Extension across or
involvement of corpus
callosum
Hemorrhagic lesions
Cryptococcus meningitis
PML
Toxoplasmosis
Tuberculous meningitis
CMV ventriculitis
Clinical
HIV polymyositis
Nemaline myopathy
chronic fatigue
Muscle complication of anti-
retroviral therapy