AIDS-Myelopathy

MR findings in AIDS-associated myelopathy.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The most common cause of spinal cord disease among patients with AIDS or those infected with HIV-1 is AIDS-associated myelopathy. The purpose of this study was to determine the MR characteristics of the spinal cord in this patient population and to correlate these findings with the clinical severity of myelopathy. METHODS MR images of the spinal cord in 21 patients with...

AIDS-associated myelopathy: clinical severity, MR findings, and underlying etiologies.

Characteristic spinal MRI findings of HIV-associated myelopathy in an AIDS patient.

Vacuolar myelopathy, which causes progressive spastic paraparesis and sensory ataxia, is the most common pathological finding in spinal cord lesions of AIDS patients on postmortem examination (1). However, clinically apparent myelopathy is an infrequent neurological complication of AIDS and is rarely the first complication seen in AIDS patients (2). Here, we report an AIDS patient who developed...

What do we currently know about treatment of AIDS - related myelopathy ?

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of various interventions for treating AIDS-associated myelopathy. Methods: This is a systematic review of randomised controlled trials. Predefined criteria were used to select randomised controlled trials comparing use of any intervention aimed at treating AIDS-associated myelopathy with placebo or another intervention in any language. Two ass...

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