Authors: Ketan R Bulsara Ali Raja Justin Owen
Publish Date: 2004/12/24
Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 92-95
Abstract
Patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus HIV or suffering from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS are now surviving for longer periods of time secondary to improvements in medical management As the classical causes of morbidity and mortality in this patient population have come under better control new complications are becoming more prevalent In our clinical practice there appears to have been a rise in the number of patients with HIV infection and AIDS who have experienced aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage SAH In this paper we review the available literature regarding cerebral aneurysms in patients infected with HIV and/or suffering from AIDS
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