General Internal Medicine

Neuro-infectious disease

Questions discussed in this category

How do you interpret CSF pleocytosis in the context of significant leukocytosis on CBC?

For example, a patient with 100 WBCs in CSF with a peripheral WBC 43k/mm3 due to AML.

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Do you repeat a lumbar puncture in a patient living with HIV diagnosed with and treated for neurosyphilis and if so, when?

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How do you approach the diagnosis and treatment of recurrent neurosyphilis in a previously treated patient?

Are VDRL titers useful?

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When would you consider checking JC virus prior to initiating biologic therapy?

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Papers discussed in this category

Journal of neurovirology, 2018-06

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in rituximab-treated rheumatic diseases: a rare event.

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