Early Detection of AIDS Dementia in Children: Highlights of Neurological Research from the VIII International Conference on AIDS, Amsterdam, July 19-24, 1992
Seattle Treatment Education Project: STEP Perspective - Volume 4, Number 3 - October 1992 Lyn Frumkin, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. R. Wachtel of the University of Maryland compared children born to HIV-seropositive mothers with those born to seronegative mothers on a variety of tests (neurologic and psychologic, head CT or MRI scans, EEGs). Infants were followed every three months for several years. Whereas imaging studies (CT or MRI brain scan) and EEGs could not distinguish between infants from the two groups, neurodevelopmental (psychological and neurologic) tests were able to do so and could also detect infants with early manifestations of HIV encephalopathy (dementia).
COMMENT: In order to identify and initiate possible early treatments for HIV encephalopathy, neurodevelopmental exams should be used to prospectively follow infants born to HIV-seropostive mothers.
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