Cerebral metabolite changes prior to and after antiretroviral therapy in primary HIV infection
Young AC, Yiannoutsos CT, Hegde M, Lee E, Peterson J, Walter R, Price RW, Meyerhoff DJ, Spudich S. Cerebral metabolite changes prior to and after antiretroviral therapy in primary HIV infection. Neurology 2014, 83: 1592-1600. PMID: 25261502, PMCID: PMC4223087, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000000932.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrimary HIV infectionParietal gray matterInitiation of ARTMI/CrFrontal white matterAntiretroviral therapyGlu/CrCho/CrHIV infectionBasal gangliaWhite matterGray matterN-acetylaspartateT proton magnetic resonance spectroscopyCerebral metabolite changesEarly ART initiationTreatment-naive participantsEarly antiretroviral therapyLevels of glutamateNAA/CrProton magnetic resonance spectroscopyCholine-containing metabolitesMagnetic resonance spectroscopyART initiationHigh-field magnetic resonance spectroscopy