Epidemiologia: Acesso Aberto

Abstrato

HIV Encephalitis Presenting as Epilepsia Partialis Continua

Balakrishnan Arivalagan, Jitesh Goel, Salil Gupta, Bhanupratap Singh

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.