Open AccessStroke in a Patient With HIV Infection
Author(s) -
Buse Rahime Hasırcı,
Dilek Ağırcan,
Münevver Okay,
İrem Bıçakçı,
Asuman Orhan Varoğlu,
Abdülkadir Koçer
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
türk beyin damar hastalıkları dergisi/türk beyin damar hastalıkları dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2146-9113
pISSN - 1301-1375
DOI - 10.5505/tbdhd.2015.96268
Subject(s) - stroke (engine) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , virology , engineering , mechanical engineering
Stroke which is a common complication in Human immumodeficiency virus type 1 positive patients is seen between 1% and 5% in clinical series. Vasculopathy and atherogenesis in HIV are the main pathologic mechanisms of stroke. We report a 63 year old man with sudden onset of a right hemiplegia and who was diagnosed as HIV-related stroke