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HIV-1 Associated Neuromuscular Complications (Overview): Follow-up
Updated: Jun 29, 2009
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Medicolegal Pitfalls
Some HIV-1 associated neuromuscular complications, for example, CMV polyradiculopathy, are often rapidly progressive and quickly lead to death unless expeditiously treated. While its clinical and cerebrospinal fluid patterns are fairly typical, the clinician must be careful not to ascribe progression of pain and weakness to a chronic painful distal neuropathy without evaluating other causes by electromyogram/nerve conduction study and cerebrospinal fluid analysis. Failure to do so may be seen as a deviation from standard medical care.
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Keywords
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS, HIV-related neuromuscular disease, mononeuropathy multiplex, acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, sensory polyneuropathy, autonomic neuropathy, polyradiculopathy, inflammatory myopathy, noninflammatory myopathy, drug toxicity, lymphoma, polymyositis, toxoplasmosis, bacterial infections, nonspecific myalgias, cytomegalovirus, CMV, herpes simplex virus infection, varicella zoster virus, Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, Treponema pallidum, Guillain-Barré syndrome
Follow-up: HIV-1 Associated Neuromuscular Complications (Overview)