Anti-retroviral therapy-induced status epilepticus in "pseudo-HIV serodeconversion".

摘要: Diligence in the interpretation of results is essential as information gained from psychiatric patient's history might often be restricted. Nonobservance established guidelines may lead to a wrong diagnosis, induce false therapy and result life-threatening situations. Communication errors between hospitals doctors uncritical acceptance prior diagnoses add substantially this problem. We present patient with alcohol-related dementia who received anti-retroviral that promoted non-convulsive status epilepticus. HIV serodeconversion was considered after our laboratory yielded HIV-negative status. Critical review previous diagnostic investigations revealed several diagnosis infection leading “pseudo-serodeconversion.” Finally, could discontinued.