Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 18-2011. A 35-year-old HIV-positive woman with headache and altered mental status

N Engl J Med. 2011 Jun 16;364(24):2343-52. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1007104.

Authors

Daniel J Costello¹, R Gilberto Gonzalez, Matthew P Frosch

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

PMID: 21675893
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1007104

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / diagnosis
Adult
Brain / pathology*
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
HIV / isolation & purification
HIV Seropositivity / complications*
Headache / etiology
Humans
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome / complications
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome / pathology*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mental Disorders / etiology
RNA, Viral / cerebrospinal fluid

Substances

RNA, Viral