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AIDS. A CSF laboratory experience on 470 cases in a 7 year time period
J A Livramento1, L R Machado, H R Gomes
1Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brasil.
Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquiatria
|March 1, 1992
Abstract:
In a seven year time period (July 1984 to June 1991) were studied CSF samples of 36,216 new patients, 470 of them infected by HIV. Number of AIDS patients represents 1.30% of total cases examined in the laboratory during this time period. Normal CSF was observed in only 16 cases (3.4%). Associated pathologies occurred in 66% of cases. Opportunistic infections predominated among them (227 cases). Data support indication for CSF examination in HIV infected patients. This exam must be as complete as possible.