Association of Proinflammatory Cytokine Levels with Stroke Severity, Infarct Size, and Muscle Strength in the Acute Phase of Stroke.

Objective: Patterns of cytokine levels and their association with stroke severity, infarct size, and muscle strength are obscure. We aimed to analyze the immune mediators linked to T helper (Th)1, Th2, Th17, and regulatory T cell patterns and their association with stroke severity, infarct size, and muscle strength.

Materials And Methods: We included patients with acute stroke (n = 15) and healthy non-disabled individuals (n = 20) aged > 18 years.

Optimization of cranial computed tomography in patients with AIDS and clinical suspicion of a neural opportunistic pathology.

Cranial computed tomography (CT) remains valuable for the identification of opportunistic pathologies in AIDS patients in low-income countries. Delayed iodinated contrast medium CT images have the potential to better demonstrate inflammatory-infectious or neoplastic opportunistic pathologies. The main objective of this study was to optimize the protocol for cranial CT in patients with AIDS and clinical signs of opportunistic pathologies at the authors' institution.