Abstract
This report is believed to be a hitherto undescribed neurological complication of AIDS. A patient presented with sudden right-sided paresis, dysphasia, and disorientation to place and time. This was followed by 15 similar transient neurological events; a complete neurological workup was negative. These neurological problems cleared completely after the patient was administered steroids for an acute bout of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; they have not recurred while the patient has been maintained on a tapered steroid regimen. This leads to speculation that the patient had a steroid-responsive migratory cerebral arteritis. It is postulated that this arteritis may represent another of the protean steroid-responsive autoimmune or direct viral manifestations of AIDS.
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