Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
PML
Symptoms
- Headaches
- Loss of coordination, clumsiness
- Loss of language ability (aphasia)
- Memory loss
- Vision problems
- Weakness of the legs and arms that gets worse
Signs and tests
Tests may include:
- Brain biopsy (rare)
- Cerebrospinal fluid test for the JCV
CT scan of the brain -
Electroencephalogram (EEG) -
MRI of the brain
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Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy Treatment
Review Date: 02/06/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; Luc Jasmin, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, and Department of
Anatomy at UCSF, San Francisco, CA. Review provided by VeriMed
Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical
Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
