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Chapter 7 - Movement disorders in HIV- and AIDS-related central nervous system infections

from Section II - Movement disorders in systemic disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2014

By
Sarah M. Kranick  and
Avindra Nath
Edited by
Werner Poewe  and
Joseph Jankovic
Sarah M. Kranick
Affiliation:
Section of Infections of the Nervous System, National Institute of Neurological Diseases & Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Avindra Nath
Affiliation:
Section of Infections of the Nervous System, National Institute of Neurological Diseases & Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Werner Poewe
Affiliation:
Medical University Innsbruck
Joseph Jankovic
Affiliation:
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas
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Introduction

There are a number of important infectious etiologies that must be considered in patients presenting with movement disorders. Abnormal movements have been recognized as the presenting sign of HIV infection since the 1980s (Nath et al. 1987). While the incidence in the developed world of certain classic movement disorders due to infections, such as Sydenham’s disease, has waned with greater antimicrobial availability, physicians continue to see a wide spectrum of infectious etiologies due to patients travelling long distances, as well as increased use of immunomodulatory agents and iatrogenic immune suppression. The recognition of infectious agents in the differential diagnosis of movement disorders can be of great clinical significance when treatment for the infection is available, such as in Whipple’s disease, which has been reported in association with AIDS (Jankovic 1986); in other cases, such as prion disease, in which treatment is not available, identification of the infectious etiology is important for diagnosis, prognosis, and epidemiological control to prevent potential spread of the infection. Recognition of infectious agents as the etiology of movement disorders may also assist with localization of the lesion (see Figure 7.1). In the case of HIV infection, which is to some extent treatable as a chronic infection, neurologists must recognize abnormal movements that may be a manifestation of the infection with HIV itself, as well as those movements attributable to opportunistic infections, and those that occur as complications of combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) or symptomatic treatment. With HIV-infected patients achieving much greater length of survival, there will likely be more cases of neurodegenerative disorders such as idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD), and thus issues related to management of PD in patients with HIV infection will also become increasingly salient.

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Movement Disorders in Neurologic and Systemic Disease , pp. 89 - 98
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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