Dementia with features of Alzheimer's disease and HIV-associated dementia in an elderly man with AIDS

AIDS

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1029-1031

  Brousseau, Kristin M ^a,b,d,e   Filley, Christopher M ^a,b   Kaye, Kathryn ^b   Kiser, Jennifer J ^c,d   Adler, Lawrence E ^a,b   Connick, Elizabeth ^b,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Colorado Center for AIDS Research ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMANTINE; NEVIRAPINE; RIVASTIGMINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS DEMENTIA COMPLEX; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67049171362     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32832ac380     Document Type: Letter

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