Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:1342-1344
Copyright © 1987 by American Psychiatric Association
Symptomatic HIV infection of the CNS in a patient without clinical evidence of immune deficiency
A Beckett, P Summergrad, T Manschreck, H Vitagliano, M Henderson, ML Buttolph and M Jenike
Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
Major depression with psychotic features, dementia, and focal neurologic
abnormalities appeared in a Haitian man without AIDS or other syndromes of
immune compromise. Neurologic evaluation, including brain biopsy, was
nondiagnostic, but CSF culture revealed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
