351. It Is Not Always Tuberculosis: Cytomegalovirus Polyradiculopathy and Encephalitis in Two Filipino Men With Advanced HIV Infection

Acute lumbosacral polyradiculopathy due to cytomegalovirus in advanced HIV disease: CSF findings in 17 patients.

OBJECTIVES To describe the abnormalities in CSF from HIV infected patients with acute lumbosacral polyradiculopathy (ALP) caused by cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. METHODS Retrospective case notes and laboratory records were reviewed for 17 consecutive patients with CMV associated ALP admitted to specialist HIV/AIDS units at UCL Hospitals and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. RESULTS Infec...

Eating Behaviour: Is It Always a Conscious Choice?

in the past 40 years there has been drastic increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide (1). This rapid increase in the prevalence of obesity is not a matter of physiologic or metabolic alteration within people. Thousands of scientific papers are published each year indicating that pharmaceutical companies are working to find possible money making antiobesity agents. Increasing in the preva...

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

NSAID intolerance: it is not always what it seems

Case A: 42 year old female patient without asthma or polyposis nasi presented with palmar and plantar pruritus, urticaria, facial angioedema and dyspnea on two occasions: 2 and 4 hours after the intake of two structurally independent NSAIDs (diclofenac 75 mg, mefenamic acid 500 mg). In both instances, pantoprazole, a proton pump inhibitor (PPI), was prescribed for gastric protection. A non-alle...

HIV is always with me: men living with perinatally acquired HIV and planning their families

Once expected to not survive childhood, youth with perinatally-acquired HIV have now reached young adulthood are of reproductive age and sexually active. Given the health impact of pregnancy among YPHIV, understanding reproductive decision making may inform preconception counseling strategies. Most literature regarding reproductive health among YPHIV focuses on women, overlooking one of the mos...