Does this HIV-positive patient have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?

We describe the case of an HIV/AIDS patient with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) associated with immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) and the diagnostic and management dilemmas in distinguishing between PML and PML-IRIS. This case is relevant to physicians including fa...

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Autores principales: Abraham, Rahul R., Anand, Ashoojit Kaur, Prasad, Ramakrishna, Rao, B. C., Pillala, Praneeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984708
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_460_18
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author Abraham, Rahul R.
Anand, Ashoojit Kaur
Prasad, Ramakrishna
Rao, B. C.
Pillala, Praneeth
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spelling pubmed-64362932019-04-12 Does this HIV-positive patient have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome? Abraham, Rahul R. Anand, Ashoojit Kaur Prasad, Ramakrishna Rao, B. C. Pillala, Praneeth J Family Med Prim Care Case Report We describe the case of an HIV/AIDS patient with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) associated with immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) and the diagnostic and management dilemmas in distinguishing between PML and PML-IRIS. This case is relevant to physicians including family physicians who manage immunocompromised patients in their practice. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6436293/ /pubmed/30984708 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_460_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Rao, B. C.
Pillala, Praneeth
Does this HIV-positive patient have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?
title Does this HIV-positive patient have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?
title_full Does this HIV-positive patient have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?
title_fullStr Does this HIV-positive patient have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?
title_full_unstemmed Does this HIV-positive patient have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?
title_short Does this HIV-positive patient have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?
title_sort does this hiv-positive patient have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or pml-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984708
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_460_18
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