Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in the AIDS Patient
作者:
Noreen Mocsny,
期刊:
Rehabilitation Nursing
(WILEY Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 18,
issue 1
页码: 20-22
ISSN:0278-4807
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1002/j.2048-7940.1993.tb01280.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Toxoplasmic encephalitis is recognized as a major cause of opportunistic infection of the central nervous system in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Often this protozoal infection is benign, but in the AIDS patient it can cause life‐threatening complications. Usually, toxoplasmic encephalitis is a latent infection activated in the brain in some 5% to 15% of AIDS patients. Treatment with oral antibiotics is effective, but relapse is common, and there may be permanent brain tissue damage with resultant neurological deficits. This article acquaints the rehabilitation nurse with the diagnosis and acute nursing care of toxoplasmic encephalitis. Rehabilitation nurses need to know about this chronic condition because rehabilitation is key to its successful long‐term care and managem
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