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01.03.2022 | Neurocritical Care Through History
It was 40 Years Ago Today: AIDS and the Brain
verfasst von:
Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
Erschienen in:
Neurocritical Care
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Ausgabe 2/2022
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Excerpt
The year 1980 marks the first case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The year 1982 marks the first case of a brain lesion in AIDS describing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), which was followed by central nervous system (CNS) toxoplasmosis a year later. These were the first indications that patients with AIDS could succumb from acute, highly unusual brain infections. Although these viral and parasitic infections were rarely seen, they flourished in the severely compromised immune systems of patients with AIDS. …