Prominent cortical atrophy with neuronal loss as correlate of human immunodeficiency virus encephalopathy
- 1 August 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in Acta Neuropathologica
- Vol. 82 (3) , 229-233
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00294450
Abstract
A 25-year-old homosexual AIDS patient presented with progressive cognitive, motor and behavioral disturbances consistent with HIV encephalopathy. CT scans demonstrated progressive diffuse brain atrophy. Neuropathology showed predominant cortical changes including severe neuronal loss corroborated by morphometry. Only minimal changes were found in the white matter and basal ganglia. Immunocytochemistry for HIV stained occasional microglial cells more markedly in the cerebral cortex. This suggests that HIV infection of the brain may cause predominant cortical nerve cell loss, and that HIV encephalopathy is not necessarily due to white matter lesions.Keywords
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