A study on Meningitis among patients with HIV at a Tertiary care hospital
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 8
Abstract
HIV/AIDS has posed many unprecedented challenges. It causes a white spectrum of disease manifestation. Approximately 60 % of the AIDS patients have neurological symptoms and 80-90 % is found to have neuropathological abnormality at biopsy. In this method Patents admitted in medicine, neurology and skin and STD with symptoms referring to nervous system were screened and confirmed to have HIV-1 and/or HIV-2 infection(seropositive) by two HIV test systems (Rapid / ELISA / Western Blot) were enrolled if they met the inclusion criteria. In results it was found that cryptococcal meningitis (28%) was more commonly present followed by TB meningitis (24%), Tuberculoma (16%), and meningo encephalitis (4%). In conclusion there is high incidence of neurological manifestations with tuberculosis and Cryptococci being commonest pathogenic agents in course of HIV infections in this study. Keywords: Human Immunodeficiency Virus; Tubercular meningitis; Cryptococcal meningitis.
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Dr. U. M. Natarajan, Dr. S. P. Prakash
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