COGNITIVE DISORDERS IN HIV ENCEPHALOPATHY

After the immune system, the most common complication of HIV infection is neurological complications. HIV encephalopathy is the most common form of neurological complications of HIV infection. In this publication, we decided to test the correlation of the viral load of patients with the severity of the disease, as well as the effectiveness of some nootropic drugs, such as choline alfoscerate and hopantenic acid. 100 patients with HIV encephalopathy for the experimental group and 25 patients with HIV infection but without signs of NeuroAIDS for the control group were randomly selected for the study. As a result patients underwent neuropsychological and cognitive studies before and after the use of nootropics. The benefits of this study showed the independence of the viral load and the level of CD4 lymphocytes from the severity of HIV - encephalopathy. With a profound impairment of cognitive impairment, the drug choline alfoscerate showed a higher result, with a high degree of anxiety, a drug with hopantenic acid showed a better result. Laboratory indicators of HIV infection cannot diagnose the severity of HIV encephalopathy. The choice of nootropic drug depends on the results of cognitive and psycho-emotional tests.