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Processing of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid and Matched Blood for Alveolar Macrophage and CD4+ T-cell Immunophenotyping and HIV Reservoir Assessment
Published on: June 23, 2019
[HIV related Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome]
L Redondo1, J Mir, J A Pérez de Léon
1Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Virgen de la Macarena, Sevilla, Spain. lredondov@meditex.es
Abstract:
Automatic-voluntary motor dissociation of the face and lower cranial nerves of brainstem is the hallmark of Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome (biopercular syndrome). It is commonly caused by ischemic strokes. We present a biopercular syndrome associated with HIV. A 41 year old female who presents a progressive automatic- voluntary motor dissociation of face and lower cranial nerves with later involvement of limbs. She was immunodepressed as a result of HIV. MRI showed bilateral lesions in opercular areas and ventrolateral thalamic nucleus, likely as a result of retrograde neuronal degeneration. Automatic-voluntary dissociation occur after biopercular lesions with sparing of motor pathway proceeding from the cingulate cortex.
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