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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 »

toxoplasmosis or pml

I have been reading about the similarity on toxoplasmosis and pml. Back in October he was doing landscaping in the backyard of which we had dogs. I've read how a person with HIV could have the JC virus surface do to exposure of animal feces....

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Toxo and PML look very different on a MRI scan. There would also have to be antibodies to toxo in the blood present. I don't know about the dog theory and PML. I also don't know off the top of my head an expert. Glad he is doing better... 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 »

Can PML cause personality change?

My partner is in the hospital with questionable PML. Is personality change common with this infection only or are there other AIDS related infections that would cause this? He also has lost use of his entire left side. MRI suggests PML but does...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

PML stands for progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. It's a condition caused by a virus (called the JC virus). PML attacks the cells of the brain causing them not to function. Both personality change and left sided (or right sided)... Read more »

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