       Document 0748
 DOCN  M9640748
 TI    Neurologic manifestations of AIDS: a comparative study of two
       populations from Mexico and the United States.
 DT    9604
 AU    Trujillo JR; Garcia-Ramos G; Novak IS; Rivera VM; Huerta E; Essex M;
       Department of Cancer Biology, Harvard School of Public Health,; Boston,
       Massachusetts 02115, USA.
 SO    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol. 1995 Jan 1;8(1):23-9. Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/96142197
 AB    Neurologic complications associated with human immunodeficiency virus
       type 1 (HIV-1) infection vary geographically. To understand the pattern
       of HIV-associated neurologic complications in Mexico, 120 AIDS patients
       from Mexico City, Mexico, and 500 AIDS patients from Houston, Texas,
       were studied cross-sectionally and retrospectively. Neurologic,
       laboratory, imaging, and pathologic examinations identified 40 Mexican
       patients and 130 U.S. patients with neurologic complications. Whereas
       AIDS dementia complex was the most common neurologic manifestation in
       both groups, intracranial tuberculoma was present only in the Mexican
       population (10%). Primary brain lymphoma was more prevalent in the U.S.
       population (8.4%). The different findings in the Mexican population
       likely reflect afflictions common to developing countries--a high
       prevalence of tuberculosis and a high mortality rate. These conditions
       preclude complications such as lymphoma, which develop later in the
       natural course of HIV infection.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*COMPLICATIONS/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Adult
       Aged  AIDS Dementia Complex/EPIDEMIOLOGY/ETIOLOGY  Brain
       Neoplasms/EPIDEMIOLOGY/ETIOLOGY  Central Nervous System
       Diseases/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*ETIOLOGY  Comparative Study  Cross-Sectional
       Studies  Cryptococcosis/EPIDEMIOLOGY/ETIOLOGY  Cytomegalovirus
       Infections/EPIDEMIOLOGY/ETIOLOGY  Female  Herpes
       Zoster/EPIDEMIOLOGY/ETIOLOGY  Human  *HIV-1  Leukoencephalopathy,
       Progressive Multifocal/EPIDEMIOLOGY/ETIOLOGY  Lymphoma,
       Non-Hodgkin's/EPIDEMIOLOGY/ETIOLOGY  Male  Meningitis,
       Viral/EPIDEMIOLOGY/ETIOLOGY  Mexico/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Middle Age  Prevalence
       Retrospective Studies  Support, Non-U.S. Gov't  Support, U.S. Gov't,
       P.H.S.  Texas/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Toxoplasmosis,
       Cerebral/EPIDEMIOLOGY/ETIOLOGY  Tuberculoma,
       Intracranial/EPIDEMIOLOGY/ETIOLOGY  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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