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DOCN M94A2888
TI Treatment of AIDS and progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy (PML)
with cytarabine when the brain biopsy is unsuccessful or impossible.
DT 9412
AU Ravaux I; Quinson AM; North MO; Gallais H; Infectious Diseases Unit,
Hopital La Conception, Marseille,; France.
SO Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):201 (abstract no. PB0231). Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94369687
AB OBJECTIVE: Is it justified to propose a treatment with CYTARABINE IV
when the diagnosis is only strongly presumed on clinical courses. CT
scanner and IRM, therapeutic criteria and responsiveness to a three
weeks course of antitoxoplasma therapy. OUR EXPERIENCE: We have studied
12 AIDS patients, 7 women and 5 men, from 25 to 45 years old, with CD4
count inferior to 200/mm3. 11 of them used AZT (500 mg/j). CLINICAL
PRESENTATION: Headache, disorders of cognitive functions with or without
focal signs. The assay of antitoxoplasma therapy failed. The white
matter was affected exclusively by multiple lesions or a single large
lesion: showing homogeneously hypodense areas at CT and low density (T1)
or high signal intensity areas. Predominated at the cortical subcortical
junction. Without diffuse and symmetrical involvement of the white
matter, no mass effect. For 4 patients specific JC virus DNA
amplification by PCR in CSF was used with positive results. All of them
have received IV CYTARABINE HYPOCHLORIDE therapy. RESULTS: After 9
months of treatment including 6 sequences of therapy, one patient is
alive and his clinical state is really ameliorated: but 5 died before 3
months, for the others, after stabilisation during 5 months, they also
died of opportunistic infections. DISCUSSION: So, in front of clinical
and radiological signs of PML we think that CYTARABINE IV could be
proposed, even if the diagnosis is not histologically confirmed.
DE Adult AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/DIAGNOSIS/*DRUG THERAPY
Biopsy Brain/PATHOLOGY Cytarabine/*THERAPEUTIC USE Female Human
Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal/DIAGNOSIS/*DRUG THERAPY
Male Middle Age MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).