Residents' clinic

58-Year-Old Woman With Diarrhea, Weakness, and Memory Loss

Discussion

This case demonstrates the importance of screening patients for HIV and including HIV infection in the differential diagnosis when evaluating patients with neurocognitive disorders. Perhaps if this patient had been screened per the current recommendations, HIV would have been uncovered before manifesting as AIDS. The goal of screening for HIV is to identify and treat HIV-infected patients who are unaware of their infection. A minimum of 300,000 Americans are estimated to be unaware of having