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No antibodies to HTLV‐I and HIV in patients with dementia in Finland
Author(s) -
Sulkava R.,
Korpela J.,
Erkinjuntti T.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1987.tb03560.x
Subject(s) - dementia , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , antibody , vascular dementia , disease , neurology , immunology , cerebrospinal fluid , outpatient clinic , virology , psychiatry
Patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have often progressive dementia. Human T cell lymphotropic virus Type I (HTLV‐I) infection has not been reported to cause dementia. We tested antibodies to HTLV‐I and HIV in serum and cerebrospinal fluid in 69 Finnish patients referred because of dementia to an outpatient department of neurology. No antibodies to HTLV‐I and HIV were detected in patients with the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, secondary dementia due to a specific cause, or in cases of atypical dementia.