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AIDS dementia complex
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AIDS dementia complex
n.
The neurological disease complex that is sometimes experienced by AIDS patients, caused by neuron injury and death and characterized by cognitive impairment.
AIDS dementia complex
A type of brain dysfunction caused by HIV infection that causes difficulty thinking, confusion, and loss of muscular coordination.
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AIDS dementia complex AIDS An insidious–30% of asymptomatic HIV-positive subjects have EEG abnormalities, progressive cognitive, motor, behavioral dysfunction, which affects up to 2⁄3 of AIDS Pts; ADC may be complicated by infections–eg, Toxoplasma gondii, CMV, lymphomas Clinical Inability to concentrate, loss of memory, gait incoordination, dysgraphia, slowing of psychomotor functions and eventually, apathy Pathology Degeneration of subcortical white matter and deep gray matter, white matter vacuolization in the lateral and posterior columns of the spinal cord


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