HIV Encephalitis Presenting as Epilepsia Partialis Continua
Received Date: Sep 03, 2022 / Published Date: Sep 30, 2022
Abstract
Seizures in HIV positive patients can be a consequence of opportunistic infections, neoplasms, or HIV encephalopathy. Most commonly, these are acute symptomstic seizures secondary to focal cortical lesions, however onset with Epilepsia Partialis Continua is extremly rare. We report case of a 21 year old boy, with nopre-morbid illnesses, presenting with Epilepsia Partialis Continua, MRI Brain showed bihemispherical cortical lesions, and was detected to be HIV positives. He showed good clinical improvement with IV Immunoglobulins and multiple Antiepileptic drugs.
Citation: Arivalagan B, Goel J, Gupta S, Singh B (2022) HIV Encephalitis Presenting as Epilepsia Partialis Continua. Epidemiol Sci 12: 458.
Copyright: © 2022 Arivalagan B, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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