Torres MJC, Torres RJ, Romero GY, Díaz CM, Crespo FDA

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 178-187
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ABSTRACT

It was carried out the presentation of a 45 year-old patient with antecedents of being seropositive to the HIV and that had begun 10 days ago with agitation and increase of the inferior members' volume and daily fevers. All this together to a marked decline after several days of having entered began with vomits. They were carried out the complementary ones that were majority normal, it presented lightly low hemoglobin (105g/L), leucopenia to polimorfos prevalence, and to the physical exam, the pain to the palpatión and mobilization so much active as passive, as well as the edema of both inferior members, great irritability, and a axial computaraizer tomographi was also appreciated that it concluded that it was a Neurotoxoplasmosis. The authors revise the topic and they narrate their experiences in the handling of the case.

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