作者: Robert Yarchoan , Pim Brouwers , A. Robert Spitzer , Jordan Grafman , Bijan Safai
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(87)91968-4
关键词: Chemotherapy 、 Medicine 、 Viral disease 、 Peripheral neuropathy 、 Surgery 、 Physical examination 、 Gastroenterology 、 Dementia 、 Disease 、 Paraplegia 、 Internal medicine 、 Zidovudine 、 General Medicine
摘要: Abstract Four patients with human-immunodeficiency-virus-associated neurological disease were treated 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT). Three (two chronic dementia, and one dementia peripheral neuropathy) improved as assessed by clinical examination, psychometric tests, nerve conduction studies, and/or positron emission tomography; there was no improvement in the fourth patient who presented paraplegia. These results support hypothesis that certain AIDS-virus-associated abnormalities are reversible antiretroviral chemotherapy.