A Case Report on Cerebellar Ataxia – HIV Induced Chronic Cerebellitis
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HIV-induced cerebellar complications, which are often manifested as ataxia, typically occur from cerebellar lesions resulting from opportunistic infections, vasculitis, or neoplastic processes. A 59yrs old male patient known to have HIV infection from past 15 years, presented to our hospital with weakness, ataxic gait, lower back pain and slurred speech since last 2-3 days. He had been receiving anti-retroviral therapy for over 15 years, and there was no family history of such illnesses. The results of examination were notable for dysarthria, dysmetria and dysdiadokokinesia. MRI revealed ligamentum flavum hypertrophy at multiple cervical levels, prominence of bilateral cerebral sulci and sylvian fissure and chronic lacunar infarcts. The final diagnosis was CEREBELLAR ATAXIA-HIV INDUCED CHRONIC CEREBELLITIS.
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