Human immunodeficiency virus infection, dementia and the older patient
| Autor: | Amanda J. Price, Fiona Judd, Graeme J. Kernutt, Graham D. Burrows |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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medicine.medical_specialty AIDS Dementia Complex MEDLINE Subcortical dementia Diagnosis Differential 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Degenerative disease Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Alzheimer Disease HIV Seroprevalence Risk Factors mental disorders Medicine Dementia Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry Aged business.industry Cognitive disorder Australia General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Female Viral disease Alzheimer's disease business |
| Zdroj: | The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry. 27(1) |
| ISSN: | 0004-8674 |
| Popis: | Australian statistics have shown that 10.9% of AIDS cases have occurred in the 50 years and over age group. To date little attention has been given to the many issues surrounding HIV infection in the older population, for example, the failure to consider HIV as an aetiological factor in the older person presenting with neuropsychiatric disorder and the potential for misdiagnosis of AIDS dementia complex as dementia of the Alzheimer type. This paper includes a discussion of the clinical features of the AIDS dementia complex, its resemblance to the syndrome of “subcortical dementia”, and review of the literature reporting dementia as the presenting feature of HIV infection in older individuals. |
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