Mental Status Changes
 
Introduction
Acute Confusion
   Infectious
   Metabolic
Cases
   Headache
   Fever & Confusion
   Focal Weakness
   Nice Doggie
   She's Talking a Lot
   Hemiparesis
   Unconscious
   Police Call
 

Fifty year-old man with headache and confusion.

  • HIV test results are pending.
  • Treatment and outcome:
    • Diflucan for the Cyptoccocal meningitis
    • There had been only marginal improvement in the patient's condition by the time the video tape was sent home.

HIV disease and its CNS complications are all but ubiquitous in Kenya.

  • Cryptococcal meningitis
  • CNS tuberculosis
  • CNS Toxoplasmosis
  • HIV encephalopathy
  • CNS lymphomas
  • Hypoxia secondary HIV related pneumonias

The next patient is a 30 year-old woman with fever, headache and confusion.

 
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