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- Title
Parkinsonism in a patient with AIDS and cerebral opportunistic granulomatous lesions.
- Authors
Maggi, P.; de Mari, M.; Moramarco, A.; Fiorentino, G.; Lamberti, P.; Angarno, G.; Angarano, G
- Abstract
The localization of opportunistic infections in the basal ganglia in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) can cause movement disorders, such as choreoathetosis, dystonia, hemiballism and, more rarely, parkinsonism. We describe the case of an AIDS patient who developed cerebral opportunistic granulomatous lesions and, subsequently, a parkinsonian akinetic-rigid syndrome. In agreement with cases reported in the literature, the parkinsonian syndrome developed only when the lesions bilaterally involved basal ganglia. The critical localization of the opportunistic lesions in the direct and indirect strio-pallidal pathways possibly associated with the HIV-related neurotoxicity might have contributed to determine this clinical picture.
- Subjects
PARKINSON'S disease; AIDS; BASAL ganglia; CEREBROSPINAL fluid
- Publication
Neurological Sciences, 2000, Vol 21, Issue 3, p173
- ISSN
1590-1874
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s100720070093