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Progressive Multifocal Leukencephalopathy - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 1st May, 2009 - 10:10am
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Progressive Multifocal Leukencephalopathy
Progressive multifocal leukencephalopathy
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Post Date: 1st May, 2009 - 10:10am / Post ID: #
Leukencephalopathy Multifocal Progressive
From the National institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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| Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is caused by the reactivation of a common virus in the central nervous system of immune-compromised individuals. Polyomavirus JC (often called JC virus) is carried by a majority of people and is harmless except among those with lowered immune defenses. The disease occurs, rarely, in organ transplant patients; people undergoing chronic corticosteroid or immunosuppressive therapy; and individuals with cancer, such as Hodgkin's disease, lymphoma, and sarcoidosis. PML is most common among individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Studies estimate that prior to effective antiretroviral therapy, as many as 5 percent of people with AIDS eventually developed PML. For them, the disease was most often rapidly fatal. |
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