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The AIDS Dementia Complex

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The views of the current state of knowledge regarding the etiology, clinical presentation, and diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the AIDS dementia complex are presented.
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Note from Dr. Merle A. Sande?Progressive dementia has been recognized as a complication of human immunodeficiency virus infection almost since the beginning of the epidemic. To many infectious diseases clinicians, however, the AIDS dementia complex remains ambiguous, and the clinical approach to this problem is less clearly defined than that for other infection-associated syndromes. Dr. Richard W. Price and his colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have, to a large extent, been responsible for defining this entity. In this AIDS Commentary they present their views of the current state of knowledge regarding the etiology, clinical presentation, and diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the AIDS dementia complex.

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The AIDS dementia complex: I. Clinical features.

TL;DR: In the most advanced stage of this AIDS dementia complex, patients exhibited a stereotyped picture of severe dementia, mutism, incontinence, paraplegia, and in some cases, myoclonus.
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TL;DR: The AIDS dementia complex is established as a distinct clinical and pathological entity and, together with accumulating virological evidence, suggests that it is caused by direct LAV/HTLV‐III brain infection.
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TL;DR: Within the context of the permissive effect of immunosuppression, genetic changes in HIV-1 may underlie the neuropathological heterogeneity of the AIDS dementia complex and its relatively independent course in relation to the systemic manifestations of AIDS noted in some patients.
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TL;DR: It is indicated that HIV infects the CNS early in the course of viral infection and prior to the development of HIV-associated neurologic abnormalities.
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TL;DR: Patients at risk of developing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) presented with cognitive, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions characteristic of the AIDS dementia complex, either preceding or in the absence of major systemic opportunistic infections or neoplasms, indicating that theAIDS dementia complex may be the earliest, and, at times, the only evidence of human immunodficiency infection.
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