Dealing With Pml When You Are Hiv Positive

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Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) Fact Sheet

What Are the Symptoms? How Do You Diagnose PML? How Do You Treat PML? Potent Anti-HIV Therapy Cytosine Arabinoside (Ara-C) Experimental Treatments Commentary The Bottom Line PML is a rare AIDS-related condition of the brain, caused by the JC virus. World wide, more than 4 in 5 adults are exposed to this virus, but it only causes disease in people with weakened immune systems. Before AIDS, PML was rarely seen except in people with...

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PML of the brain (PML, 2009)

My best friend just started having seizures about 5 months ago, the first time, he was taken by ambulance to the ER and because he had smoked marijuana (with a written doctors recomendation in the state of California) the ER doc dismissed anything...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Patrick in Redding,I'm stunned that an ER physician would so readily dismiss an AIDS patient that had a seizure!!!! A very thorough evaluation was warranted. Assuming it was caused by smoking medical marijuana demonstrates very poor... Read more »

HIV AND PML

i am hiv positive and i discovered it two years back when i started suffering from certain neurological problems. During check up i found my CD4count to be 2 and PML in my brain. i started taking HAART combinatin and was hospitalized. after...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Unfortunately, this is not the type of question I can answer over the Internet based on the limited information provided. I would suggest you contact an HIV/AIDS-knowledgeable neurologist to review your case and clinical course to date. He... Read more »

pml

what, does pml stand for in hiv pos poeple?...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)! Now there's a name that doesn't just roll of the tongue, eh?PML is an opportunistic infection caused by Polyomavirus JC. Luckily we are seeing less of this devastating infection than... Read more »

Toxo/PML-which is it?

My partner was test positive for HIV 2 1/2 months ago. He had a T-Cell count of 43 and virus load in the thousands. This was discovered when a tremor started in his right arm - now the whole right side of his body is numb and he has trouble...

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.

University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

It can be hard to diagnose infections in the brain. If your partner's condition is getting worse, there are 2 possibilities: (1) Toxo is the wrong diagnosis, or (2) he is developing an "immune reconstitution syndrome" to the toxo... Read more »

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Know someone who died of PML/Liver Failure?

Posted by ScotCharles, 2 Replies

Hey guys,

Just recently, a number of people I know who have been HIV+ for more than 20 years have died of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy(PML) and liver failure. I wonder if anyone else had similiar experience?

Cheers,

ScotCharles Read more »

PML...What is it???? Your new book trailer has b

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PML Disease: What is it?
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Ocala : FL : USA | Jun 25, 2010
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You may be asking yourself what exactly it is. PML stands for Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy. The majority of the population carries the Polyomavirus... Read more »

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