Acute diffuse leukoencephalitis in HIV-1 infection.

Acute diffuse leukoencephalitis in HIV-1 infection.

The clinical, neuroradiological, and cerebrospinal fluid findings of a case with acute diffuse leukoencephalitis, a demyelinating disease associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection of the brain, is reported. The patient presented with acute tetraparesis as the primary manifestation of a previously symptom free HIV infection. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis showed enhanced inflammatory ...

Acute HIV-1 Infection.

From the Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (M.S.C.), and the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham (B.F.H.) — both in North Carolina; the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (G.M.S.); and the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and the National Institute for Health Re...

Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis

Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis of Weston Hurst is at the extreme end of the spectrum of demyelinating diseases. It typically follows a viral upper respiratory infection and evolves rapidly to coma and death. "Ball and ring" hemorrhages appear in the centrum semiovale of the brain, associated with mononuclear and neutrophil infiltrates, surrounded by demyelination spreading out from fibrin-...

Viral Dynamics of Acute HIV-1 Infection

Viral dynamics were intensively investigated in eight patients with acute HIV infection to define the earliest rates of change in plasma HIV RNA before and after the start of antiretroviral therapy. We report the first estimates of the basic reproductive number (R(0)), the number of cells infected by the progeny of an infected cell during its lifetime when target cells are not depleted. The mea...

Acute HIV-1 infection: targeting the regulator.