Hemiplegia as a presentation of HIV infection in children: A report of 3 cases

Strokes are a rare neurological manifestation of HIV infection in children with multifactorial etiologies. We present three HIV-infected children who presented to us with stroke out of which two had cerebral infarcts and who responded to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Third patient had tuberculous me...

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Autores principales: Shah, Ira, Nandy, Sneha, Kumari, Renu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29302563
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_344_16
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description Strokes are a rare neurological manifestation of HIV infection in children with multifactorial etiologies. We present three HIV-infected children who presented to us with stroke out of which two had cerebral infarcts and who responded to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Third patient had tuberculous meningitis who was lost to follow-up before ART could be initiated.
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spelling pubmed-57491022018-01-04 Hemiplegia as a presentation of HIV infection in children: A report of 3 cases Shah, Ira Nandy, Sneha Kumari, Renu J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Strokes are a rare neurological manifestation of HIV infection in children with multifactorial etiologies. We present three HIV-infected children who presented to us with stroke out of which two had cerebral infarcts and who responded to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Third patient had tuberculous meningitis who was lost to follow-up before ART could be initiated. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5749102/ /pubmed/29302563 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_344_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29302563
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