Pseudobulbar syndrome in two patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 220-222

  Almeida, Vânia ^a   Mestre, Tiago ^a   De Carvalho, Mamede ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Human immunodeficiency virus infection; Motor neuron disease pseudobulbar syndrome

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; LIVER ENZYME;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CELL LOSS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL INCONTINENCE; ENTERIC FEEDING; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGY; HEMIPARESIS; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JC VIRUS; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCYTOPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY LATERAL SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; PSEUDOBULBAR PALSY; SEIZURE; SPASTICITY;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PSEUDOBULBAR PALSY;

EID: 77649293929     PISSN: 17482968     EISSN: 1471180X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17482960902748694     Document Type: Article

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