Encepalitis in NIV infected patients
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Alongside with focal neurologic semiology, frequency of observable frustration of the mental status being a debut at overwhelming number of patients with CMV-encephalitis (and 1/3 of patients with toxoplasma encephalitis), demands vigilance of neurologists and psychiatrists concerning of possibility of latent HIV-infections, especially in young patients. Observable decrease of level of CD4 lymphocytes less than 100 cells / ml is a marker of adverse development, progressing HIV infection, possibility of emergence opportunistic infections, causing different lesion of nervous system in HIV patients.
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We had observed 36 HIV infected (III and IV clinical stage, according to Classification by WHO, 2002). All patients are registered in Kharkov regional HIV center. Methods: clinical, parameters of the immune status (a quantitative estimation of subpopulations T-lymphocytes (CD4) in blood), MRI.
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Soloviova Y. T. Encepalitis in NIV infected patients / Y. T. Soloviova // Медицина третього тисячоліття : збірник тез міжвузівської конференції молодих вчених та студентів, Харків, 20 січня 2015 р. / Харківський національний медичний університет. – Харків, 2015. – С. 371–372.