Involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) is common in patients with advanced disease due to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Symptoms range from lethargy and apathy to coma, incoordination and ataxia to hemiparesis, loss of memory to severe dementia, and focal to major motor seizures. Involvement may be closely associated with HIV infection per se, as in the AIDS dementia complex, but is frequently caused by opportunistic pathogens such as Toxoplasma gondii and Cryptococcus neoformans or malignancies such as primary lymphoma of the CNS. The clinical presentations of attendant and direct CNS involvement are remarkably non-specific and overlapping, yet a correct diagnosis is critical to successful intervention. Toxoplasmic encephalitis is one of the most common and most treatable causes of AIDS-associated pathology of the CNS. A great deal has been learned in the last 10 years about its unique presentation in the HIV-infected patient with advanced disease. Drs. Benjamin J. Luft of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Jack S. Remington of the Stanford University School of Medicine and Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Research Institute have studied T. gondii for many years and are two of the leading experts in the field. This commentary comprises an update of their initial review (J Infect Dis 1988;157:1-6) and a presentation of the current approaches to diagnosing and managing toxoplasmic encephalitis in HIV-infected patients.

Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in AIDS

Background Since 1985, donors of organs or tissues for transplantation in the United States have been screened for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), and more than 60,000 organs and 1 million tissues have been transplanted. We describe a case of transmission of HIV-1 by transplantation of organs and tissues procured between the time the donor became infected and the appearance of antibodies. The donor was a 22-year-old man who died 32 hours after a gunshot wound; he had no known risk factors for HIV-1 infection and was seronegative. Methods We reviewed the processing and distribution of all the transplanted organs and tissues, reviewed the medical histories of the donor and HIV-1—infected recipients, tested stored donor lymphocytes for HIV-1 by viral culture and the polymerase chain reaction, and tested stored serum samples from four organ recipients for HIV-1 antigen and antibody. Results HIV-1 was detected in cultured lymphocytes from the donor. Of 58 tissues and organs obtained from ...

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Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 from a Seronegative Organ and Tissue Donor

Pathologic classification of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: a working proposal.

Samir K. Gupta, Joseph A. Eustace, Jonathan A. Winston, Ivy I. Boydstun, Tejinder S. Ahuja, Rudolph A. Rodriguez, Karen T. Tashima, Michelle Roland, Nora Franceschini, Frank J. Palella, Jeffrey L. Lennox, Paul E. Klotman, Sharon A. Nachman, Stephen D. Hall, and Lynda A. Szczech Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, Stony Brook; Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital and Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital and the UCSF AIDS Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island; Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; and Grady Infectious Disease Program, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

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Guidelines for the Management of Chronic Kidney Disease in HIV-Infected Patients: Recommendations of the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Progression of glomerular diseases: Is the podocyte the culprit?

https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(15)34576-2/pdf

Pathology of HIV-associated nephropathy: a detailed morphologic and comparative study.

Course and prognosis of human immunodeficiency virus-associated nephropathy

Sulfadiazine-Associated Obstructive Nephropathy Occurring in a Patient With the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

https://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386(88)80051-9/pdf

Laura Carbone

Papers

Pathology of HIV-associated nephropathy: a detailed morphologic and comparative study.

Course and prognosis of human immunodeficiency virus-associated nephropathy

Sulfadiazine-Associated Obstructive Nephropathy Occurring in a Patient With the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Determination of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) after renal transplantation.

Adult respiratory distress syndrome associated with oral cyclosporine.