Allen J. Aksamit, Jr., M.D.

  1. Neurologist
  1. Banks SA, Abeykoon JP, Rech K, Morris P, Tan QKG, Veres LN, Schoonover KL, Aksamit AJ, Keating GF, Kissoon N, Sominidi Damodaran S, Maredia HS, Davidge-Pitts CJ, Villasboas JC, Go R, Tobin WO, Mayo Clinic-University of Alabama at Birmingham Histiocytosis Working Group. SLC29A3 Pathogenic Variants Resulting in Dural Based Fibroinflammatory Mass Lesions and H Syndrome Treated With Cobimetinib: A Case Report. Neurol Genet. 2024 Dec; 10 (6):e200197 Epub 2024 Oct 14
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  2. Mangioris G, Pittock SJ, Yang B, Fryer JP, Harmsen WS, Dubey D, Flanagan EP, Lopez-Chiriboga SA, McKeon A, Mills JR, Vodopivec I, Tobin WO, Toledano M, Aksamit AJ, Zekeridou A. Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytokine and Chemokine Profiles in Central Nervous System Sarcoidosis: Diagnostic and Immunopathologic Insights. Ann Neurol. 2024 Oct; 96 (4):704-714 Epub 2024 July 19
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  3. Chodnicki KD, Aksamit AJ, Gavrilova RH, Farnsworth PJ, McClelland CM. Optic Neuropathy and Myelopathy in a Teenager With Biotinidase Deficiency. J Neuroophthalmol. 2024 Sep 1; 44 (3):437-440 Epub 2024 Feb 07
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  4. McEntire CRS, Fletcher A, Toledano M, Epstein S, White E, Tan CS, Mao-Draayer Y, Banks SA, Aksamit AJ, Gelfand JM, Thakur KT, Anand P, Cortese I, Bhattacharyya S. Characteristics of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy Associated With Sarcoidosis Without Therapeutic Immune Suppression. JAMA Neurol. 2023 Jun 1; 80 (6):624-633
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  5. Shir D, Lazar EB, Graff-Radford J, Aksamit AJ, Cutsforth-Gregory JK, Jones DT, Botha H, Ramanan VK, Prusinski C, Porter A, Day GS. Analysis of Clinical Features, Diagnostic Tests, and Biomarkers in Patients With Suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, 2014-2021. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Aug 1; 5 (8):e2225098 Epub 2022 Aug 01
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  6. Madhavan AA, Wood CP, Aksamit AJ, Schwartz KM, Atkinson JL, Kumar N. Superficial siderosis associated with an iatrogenic posterior fossa dural leak identified on CT cisternography. Neuroradiol J. 2022 Jun; 35 (3):403-407 Epub 2021 Sept 03
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  7. Mustafa R, Passe TJ, Lopez-Chiriboga AS, Weinshenker BG, Krecke KN, Zalewski NL, Diehn FE, Sechi E, Mandrekar J, Kaufmann TJ, Morris PP, Pittock SJ, Toledano M, Lanzino G, Aksamit AJ, Kumar N, Lucchinetti CF, Flanagan EP. Utility of MRI Enhancement Pattern in Myelopathies With Longitudinally Extensive T2 Lesions. Neurol Clin Pract. 2021 Oct; 11 (5):e601-e611
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  8. Aksamit AJ. Chronic Meningitis. N Engl J Med. 2021 Sep 2; 385 (10):930-936
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  9. Aksamit AJ Jr, Berkowitz AL. Meningitis. Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2021 Aug 1; 27 (4):836-854
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  10. Aksamit AJ Jr. Treatment of Viral Encephalitis. Neurol Clin. 2021 Feb; 39 (1):197-207 Epub 2020 Nov 07
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  11. Webb LM, Chen JJ, Aksamit AJ, Bhattacharyya S, Chwalisz BK, Balaban D, Manzano GS, Ali AS, Lord J, Clardy SL, Samudralwar RD, Mao-Draayer Y, Garrity JA, Bhatti MT, Turner LE, Flanagan EP. A multi-center case series of sarcoid optic neuropathy. J Neurol Sci. 2021 Jan 15; 420:117282 Epub 2020 Dec 19
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  12. Rodino KG, Toledano M, Norgan AP, Pritt BS, Binnicker MJ, Yao JD, Aksamit AJ, Patel R. Retrospective Review of Clinical Utility of Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing Testing of Cerebrospinal Fluid from a U.S. Tertiary Care Medical Center. J Clin Microbiol. 2020 Nov 18; 58 (12)
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  13. Simpson HD, Aksamit AJ, Zalewski NL. Longitudinally Extensive Spinal Cord Lesion in Erdheim-Chester Disease. JAMA Neurol. 2020 Nov 1; 77 (11):1446-1447
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  14. Kunchok A, Aksamit AJ Jr, Davis JM 3rd, Kantarci OH, Keegan BM, Pittock SJ, Weinshenker BG, McKeon A. Association Between Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Exposure and Inflammatory Central Nervous System Events. JAMA Neurol. 2020 Aug 1; 77 (8):937-946
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  15. Parsons AM, Aslam F, Grill MF, Aksamit AJ, Goodman BP. Rheumatoid Meningitis: Clinical Characteristics, Diagnostic Evaluation, and Treatment. Neurohospitalist. 2020 Apr; 10 (2):88-94 Epub 2019 June 30
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  16. Masdeu JC, Aksamit AJ, Carver AC, Foley KM, Kass JS, Martin RA, McCusker EA, McQuillen MP, Mehanna R, Payne R, Victor SJ, Warach S. End of life: Expert care and support, not physician-hastened death. Neurology. 2019 Oct 22; 93 (17):729-734 Epub 2019 Sept 17
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  17. Venkatesan A, Chow FC, Aksamit A, Bartt R, Bleck TP, Jay C, Pastula DM, Roos KL, Rumbaugh J, Saylor D, Cho TA. Building a neuroinfectious disease consensus curriculum. Neurology. 2019 Jul 30; 93 (5):208-216 Epub 2019 June 28
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  18. Sechi E, Morris PP, McKeon A, Pittock SJ, Hinson SR, Weinshenker BG, Aksamit AJ, Krecke KN, Kaufmann TJ, Jolliffe EA, Zalewski NL, Zekeridou A, Wingerchuk DM, Jitprapaikulsan J, Flanagan EP. Glial fibrillary acidic protein IgG related myelitis: characterisation and comparison with aquaporin-4-IgG myelitis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2019 Apr; 90 (4):488-490 Epub 2018 July 21
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  19. Zalewski NL, Rabinstein AA, Krecke KN, Brown RD Jr, Wijdicks EFM, Weinshenker BG, Kaufmann TJ, Morris JM, Aksamit AJ, Bartleson JD, Lanzino G, Blessing MM, Flanagan EP. Characteristics of Spontaneous Spinal Cord Infarction and Proposed Diagnostic Criteria. JAMA Neurol. 2019 Jan 1; 76 (1):56-63
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  20. Stern BJ, Royal W 3rd, Gelfand JM, Clifford DB, Tavee J, Pawate S, Berger JR, Aksamit AJ, Krumholz A, Pardo CA, Moller DR, Judson MA, Drent M, Baughman RP. Definition and Consensus Diagnostic Criteria for Neurosarcoidosis: From the Neurosarcoidosis Consortium Consensus Group. JAMA Neurol. 2018 Dec 1; 75 (12):1546-1553
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  21. Chen JJ, Aksamit AJ, McKeon A, Pittock SJ, Weinshenker BG, Leavitt JA, Morris PP, Flanagan EP. Optic Disc Edema in Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Autoantibody-Positive Meningoencephalitis. J Neuroophthalmol. 2018 Sep; 38 (3):276-281
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  22. Dubey D, Pittock SJ, Kelly CR, McKeon A, Lopez-Chiriboga AS, Lennon VA, Gadoth A, Smith CY, Bryant SC, Klein CJ, Aksamit AJ, Toledano M, Boeve BF, Tillema JM, Flanagan EP. Autoimmune encephalitis epidemiology and a comparison to infectious encephalitis. Ann Neurol. 2018 Jan; 83 (1):166-177
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  23. Flanagan EP, Hinson SR, Lennon VA, Fang B, Aksamit AJ, Morris PP, Basal E, Honorat JA, Alfugham NB, Linnoila JJ, Weinshenker BG, Pittock SJ, McKeon A. Glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoglobulin G as biomarker of autoimmune astrocytopathy: Analysis of 102 patients. Ann Neurol. 2017 Feb; 81 (2):298-309
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  24. Fang B, McKeon A, Hinson SR, Kryzer TJ, Pittock SJ, Aksamit AJ, Lennon VA. Autoimmune Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Astrocytopathy: A Novel Meningoencephalomyelitis. JAMA Neurol. 2016 Nov 1; 73 (11):1297-1307
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  25. Zalewski NL, Krecke KN, Weinshenker BG, Aksamit AJ, Conway BL, McKeon A, Flanagan EP. Central canal enhancement and the trident sign in spinal cord sarcoidosis. Neurology. 2016 Aug 16; 87 (7):743-4
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  26. Flanagan EP, Kaufmann TJ, Krecke KN, Aksamit AJ, Pittock SJ, Keegan BM, Giannini C, Weinshenker BG. Discriminating long myelitis of neuromyelitis optica from sarcoidosis. Ann Neurol. 2016 Mar; 79 (3):437-47 Epub 2016 Feb 12
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  27. Singh TD, Fugate JE, Hocker S, Wijdicks EFM, Aksamit AJ Jr, Rabinstein AA. Predictors of outcome in HSV encephalitis. J Neurol. 2016 Feb; 263 (2):277-289 Epub 2015 Nov 14
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  28. Gnann JW Jr, Skoldenberg B, Hart J, Aurelius E, Schliamser S, Studahl M, Eriksson BM, Hanley D, Aoki F, Jackson AC, Griffiths P, Miedzinski L, Hanfelt-Goade D, Hinthorn D, Ahlm C, Aksamit A, Cruz-Flores S, Dale I, Cloud G, Jester P, Whitley RJ, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Collaborative Antiviral Study Group. Herpes Simplex Encephalitis: Lack of Clinical Benefit of Long-term Valacyclovir Therapy. Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Sep 1; 61 (5):683-91 Epub 2015 May 08
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  29. Pichler MR, Flanagan EP, Aksamit AJ, Leavitt JA, Salomao DR, Keegan BM. Conjunctival biopsy to diagnose neurosarcoidosis in patients with inflammatory nervous system disease of unknown etiology. Neurol Clin Pract. 2015 Jun; 5 (3):216-223
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  30. Carlson ML, White JR Jr, Espahbodi M, Haynes DS, Driscoll CL, Aksamit AJ, Pawate S, Lane JI, Link MJ. Cranial base manifestations of neurosarcoidosis: a review of 305 patients. Otol Neurotol. 2015 Jan; 36 (1):156-66
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  31. Tobin WO, Lennon VA, Komorowski L, Probst C, Clardy SL, Aksamit AJ, Appendino JP, Lucchinetti CF, Matsumoto JY, Pittock SJ, Sandroni P, Tippmann-Peikert M, Wirrell EC, McKeon A. DPPX potassium channel antibody: frequency, clinical accompaniments, and outcomes in 20 patients. Neurology. 2014 Nov 11; 83 (20):1797-803 Epub 2014 Oct 15
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  32. Kaufman GP, Aksamit AJ, Klein CJ, Yi ES, Delone DR, Litzow MR. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: a rare infectious complication following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Eur J Haematol. 2014 Jan; 92(1):83-7. Epub 2013 Oct 25.
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  33. Flanagan EP, Aksamit AJ, Kumar N, Morparia NP, Keegan BM, Weinshenker BG. Simultaneous PML-IRIS and myelitis in a patient with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. Neurol Clin Pract. 2013 Oct; 3 (5):448-451
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  34. Graff-Radford J, Rubin MN, Jones DT, Aksamit AJ, Ahlskog JE, Knopman DS, Petersen RC, Boeve BF, Josephs KA. The alien limb phenomenon. J Neurol. 2013 Jul; 260 (7):1880-8 Epub 2013 Apr 10
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  35. Leep Hunderfund AN, Zabad RK, Aksamit AJ, Morris JM, Meyer FB, Thorell WE, Parisi JE, Giannini C. Diffuse anaplastic leptomeningeal oligodendrogliomatosis mimicking neurosarcoidosis. Neurol Clin Pract. 2013 Jun; 3 (3):261-265
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  36. Berger JR, Aksamit AJ, Clifford DB, Davis L, Koralnik IJ, Sejvar JJ, Bartt R, Major EO, Nath A. PML diagnostic criteria: consensus statement from the AAN Neuroinfectious Disease Section. Neurology. 2013 Apr 9; 80(15):1430-8.
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  37. Miller S, Mateen FJ, Aksamit AJ Jr. Herpes simplex virus 2 meningitis: a retrospective cohort study. J Neurovirol. 2013 Apr; 19 (2):166-71 Epub 2013 Mar 15
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  38. Aksamit AJ. Catholicism, the Mayo Clinic, and the Future of Medicine. HUMANUM, http://www.humanumreview.com/articles/view/catholicism-the-mayo-clinic-and-the-future-of-medicine. 2013.
  39. Aksamit AJ Jr. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2012 Dec; 18(6 Infectious Disease):1374-91.
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  40. Klaas JP, Ahlskog JE, Pittock SJ, Matsumoto JY, Aksamit AJ, Bartleson JD, Kumar R, McEvoy KF, McKeon A. Adult-onset opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome. Arch Neurol. 2012 Dec; 69(12):1598-607.
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  41. Akkara Veetil BM, Yee AH, Warrington KJ, Aksamit AJ Jr, Mason TG. Aseptic meningitis in adult onset Still's disease. Rheumatol Int. 2012 Dec; 32 (12):4031-4 Epub 2010 May 22
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  42. Huang JF, Aksamit AJ, Staff NP. MRI and PET imaging discordance in neurosarcoidosis. Neurology. 2012 Sep 4; 79(10):1070.
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  43. Rubin M, Graff-Radford J, Boeve B, Josephs KA, Aksamit AJ. The alien limb phenomenon and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2012 Aug; 18: (7)842-6.
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  44. Quek AM, Britton JW, McKeon A, So E, Lennon VA, Shin C, Klein C, Watson RE Jr, Kotsenas AL, Lagerlund TD, Cascino GD, Worrell GA, Wirrell EC, Nickels KC, Aksamit AJ, Noe KH, Pittock SJ. Autoimmune epilepsy: clinical characteristics and response to immunotherapy. Arch Neurol. 2012 May; 69 (5):582-93
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  45. Mateen FJ, Muralidharan R, Carone M, van de Beek D, Harrison DM, Aksamit AJ, Gould MS, Clifford DB, Nath A. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in transplant recipients. Ann Neurol. 2011 Aug; 70(2):305-22.
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  46. Flanagan EP, McKeon A, Lennon VA, Kearns J, Weinshenker BG, Krecke KN, Matiello M, Keegan BM, Mokri B, Aksamit AJ, Pittock SJ. Paraneoplastic isolated myelopathy: clinical course and neuroimaging clues. Neurology. 2011 Jun 14; 76(24):2089-95.
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  47. Pittock SJ, Debruyne J, Krecke KN, Giannini C, van den Ameele J, De Herdt V, McKeon A, Fealey RD, Weinshenker BG, Aksamit AJ, Krueger BR, Shuster EA, Keegan BM. Chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS). Brain. 2010 Sep; 133(9):2626-34. Epub 2010 Jul 17.
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  48. Black DF, Aksamit AJ, Morris JM. MR imaging of central nervous system Whipple disease: a 15-year review. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2010 Sep; 31 (8):1493-7 Epub 2010 Apr 15
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  49. Stern BJ, Aksamit A, Clifford D, Scott TF, Neurosarcoidosis Study Group. Neurologic presentations of sarcoidosis. Neurol Clin. 2010 Feb; 28(1):185-98.
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  50. Aksamit AJ. Whipple's disease of the central nervous system. Handb Clin Neurol. 2010; 96:231-7. Epub 2010 Jan 19.
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  51. Jicha GA, Glantz J, Clarke MJ, Lehwald LM, Russo DP, Giannini C, Wald JT, Uhm J, Kumar N, Aksamit AJ, Wetmore CJ. Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis. Eur Neurol. 2009; 62(1):16-22. Epub 2009 May 04.
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  52. Rahmlow M, Shuster EA, Dominik J, Deen HG Jr, Dickson DW, Aksamit AJ Jr, Robles HA, Freeman WD. Leflunomide-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. Arch Neurol. 2008 Nov; 65 (11):1538-9
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  53. Aksamit AJ. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2008 May; 10 (3):178-85
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  54. Yee AH, Merrell RT, Zubkov AY, Aksamit AJ, Hu WT, Manno EM, Schertel J, DeVries A, Danila R, Smith KE, Rupprecht CE. Human Rabies - Minnesota 2007. MMWR. 2008; 57:460-2.
  55. Aksamit A. Neurosarcoidosis. CONTINUUM Lifelong Learn. Neurol. 2008; 14(1):181-96.
  56. Tyler KL, Aksamit AJ Jr, Keegan BM, Parisi JE. An 85-year-old man with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and altered mental status. Neurology. 2007 Feb 6; 68(6):460-7.
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  57. Aksamit AJ. Review of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and natalizumab. Neurologist. 2006 Nov; 12(6):293-8.
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  58. Burns TM, Dyck PJ, Dyck PJ, Aksamit AJ, Dyck PJ, Dyck PJ. The natural history and long-term outcome of 57 limb sarcoidosis neuropathy cases. J Neurol Sci. 2006 May 15; 244 (1-2):77-87 Epub 2006 Mar 09
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  59. Castillo P, Woodruff B, Caselli R, Vernino S, Lucchinetti C, Swanson J, Noseworthy J, Aksamit A, Carter J, Sirven J, Hunder G, Fatourechi V, Mokri B, Drubach D, Pittock S, Lennon V, Boeve B. Steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis. Arch Neurol. 2006 Feb; 63 (2):197-202
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  60. Wall CA, Rummans TA, Aksamit AJ, Krahn LE, Pankratz VS. Psychiatric manifestations of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a 25-year analysis. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2005 Fall; 17 (4):489-95
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  61. Bakleh M, Aksamit AJ, Tleyjeh IM, Marshall WF. Successful treatment of cerebral blastomycosis with voriconazole. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 May 1; 40(9):e69-71. Epub 2005 Mar 22.
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  62. Matthews BR, Jones LK, Saad DA, Aksamit AJ, Josephs KA. Cerebellar ataxia and central nervous system whipple disease. Arch Neurol. 2005 Apr; 62(4):618-20.
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  63. Aksamit AJ. Herpes Simplex Encephalitis in Adults and Older Children. Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2005 Mar; 7 (2):145-150
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  64. Mokri B, Aksamit AJ, Atkinson JLD. Paradoxical postural headaches in cerebrospinal fluid leaks. Cephalalgia. 2004 Oct; 24(10):883-7.
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  65. Thieben MJ, Lennon VA, Boeve BF, Aksamit AJ, Keegan M, Keegan M, Vernino S. Potentially reversible autoimmune limbic encephalitis with neuronal potassium channel antibody. Neurology. 2004 Apr 13; 62 (7):1177-82
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  66. O'Sullivan CE, Aksamit AJ, Harrington JR, Harmsen WS, Mitchell PS, Patel R. Clinical spectrum and laboratory characteristics associated with detection of herpes simplex virus DNA in cerebrospinal fluid. Mayo Clin Proc. 2003 Nov; 78(11):1347-52.
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  67. Cambier DM, Kantarci K, Worrell GA, Westmoreland BF, Aksamit AJ. Lateralized and focal clinical, EEG, and FLAIR MRI abnormalities in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Clin Neurophysiol. 2003 Sep; 114: (9)1724-8.
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  68. Cohen-Gadol AA, Zikel OM, Miller GM, Aksamit AJ, Scheithauer BW, Krauss WE. Spinal cord biopsy: a review of 38 cases. Neurosurgery. 2003 Apr; 52 (4):806-15; discussion 815-6
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  69. Atkinson JLD, Lane JI, Aksamit AJ. MRI depiction of chronic intradural (subdural) hematoma in evolution. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2003 Apr; 17(4):484-6.
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  70. Razonable RR, Aksamit AJ, Wright AJ, Wilson JW. Cidofovir treatment of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in a patient receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy. Mayo Clin Proc. 2001 Nov; 76 (11):1171-5
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  71. Aksamit AJ Jr, Preissner CM, Homburger HA. Quantitation of 14-3-3 and neuron-specific enolase proteins in CSF in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Neurology. 2001 Aug 28; 57 (4):728-30
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  72. Aksamit AJ. Treatment of non-AIDS progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy with cytosine arabinoside. J Neurovirol. 2001 Aug; 7 (4):386-90
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  73. Rubin ID, Aksamit JA, Daube JR. Motor and sensory conduction blocks preceding severe axonal loss in guillain-barre syndrome. J Clin Neuromuscul Dis. 1999 Dec; 1 (2):79-81
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  74. Schievink WI, Hunter SF, Marsh WR, Aksamit AJ, Jack CR. Traumatic occlusion of one limb of an intracranial arterial fenestration: an uncommon cause of stroke. Neurology. 1996 Jul; 47 (1):277-8
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  75. Aksamit AJ Jr. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: a review of the pathology and pathogenesis. Microscopy Research & Technique. 1995 Nov 1; 32(4):302-11.
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  76. Aksamit AJ Jr, de Groen PC. Cyclosporine-related leukoencephalopathy and PML in a liver transplant recipient. Transplantation. 1995 Oct 27; 60(8):874-6.
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  77. Smith JE, Aksamit AJ Jr. Outcome of chronic idiopathic meningitis. Mayo Clin Proc. 1994 Jun; 69 (6):548-56
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  78. Aksamit AJ Jr. Nonradioactive in situ hybridization in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. Mayo Clin Proc. 1993 Sep; 68 (9):899-910
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  79. Hughes BA, Kimmel DW, Aksamit AJ. Herpes zoster-associated meningoencephalitis in patients with systemic cancer. Mayo Clin Proc. 1993 Jul; 68 (7):652-5
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  80. Graefin Von Einsiedel R, Aksamit AJ, Cornford ME, Tomiyasu U, Itabashi HH, Vinters HV. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in AIDS: a clinicopathological study and review of the literature. J Neurol. 1993; 240:391-406.
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  81. Telenti A, Marshall WF, Aksamit AJ, Smilack JC, Smith TF. Detection of JC virus in cerebrospinal fluid and blood in patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 1992; 11:253-254.
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  82. Wszolek ZK, Aksamit AJ, Ellingson RJ, Sharbrough FW, Westmoreland BF, Pfeiffer RF, Steg RE, de Groen PC. Epileptiform electroencephalographic abnormalities in liver transplant recipients. Ann Neurol. 1991 Jul; 30(1):37-41.
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  83. Marshall WF, Telenti A, Proper J, Aksamit AJ, Smith TF. Survey of urine from transplant recipients for polyomaviruses JC and BK using the polymerase chain reaction. Mol Cell Probes. 1991 Apr; 5 (2):125-8
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  84. Telenti A, Aksamit AJ Jr, Proper J, Smith TF. Detection of JC virus DNA by polymerase chain reaction in patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. J Infect Dis. 1990 Oct; 162 (4):858-61
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  85. Guess HA, Resseguie LJ, Melton LJ 3rd, Kurland LT, Melton LJ 3rd, Lydick EG, Aksamit AJ, Wilson WR. Factors predictive of seizures among intensive care unit patients with gram-negative infections. Epilepsia. 1990 Sep-Oct; 31 (5):567-73
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  86. Marshall WF, Telenti A, Proper J, Aksamit AJ, Smith TF. Rapid detection of polyomavirus BK by a shell vial cell culture assay. J Clin Microbiol. 1990 Jul; 28 (7):1613-5
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  87. Aksamit AJ, Gendelman HE, Orenstein JM, Pezeshkpour GH. AIDS-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML): comparison to non-AIDS PML with in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry. Neurology. 1990 Jul; 40 (7):1073-8
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  88. de Groen PC, Aksamit AJ, Westmoreland BF, Kottke BA, Krom RAF. Low cholesterol levels and intracranial hemorrhages after liver transplantation. New England J Med. 1989; 321:1340-1.
  89. Wilson SE, de Groen PC, Aksamit AJ, Wiesner RH, Garrity JA, Krom RA. Cyclosporin A-induced reversible cortical blindness. J Clin Neuroophthalmol. 1988 Dec; 8(4):215-20.
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  90. de Groen PC, Aksamit AJ, Rakela J, Forbes GS, Krom RAF. The role of cyclosporine A and cholesterol in a new central nervous system syndrome after liver transplantation. Transplant Proc. 1988 Feb; 20(Suppl 1):625-7.
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  91. de Groen PC, Aksamit AJ, Rakela J, Forbes GS, Krom RA. Central nervous system toxicity after liver transplantation. The role of cyclosporine and cholesterol. N Engl J Med. 1987 Oct 1; 317(14):861-6.
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  92. Aksamit AJ, Major EO, Ghatak NR, Sidhu GS, Parisi JE, Guccion JG. Diagnosis of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy by brain biopsy with biotin labeled DNA: DNA in situ hybridization. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 1987; 46:556-566.
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  93. Macher AM, Parisi JE, Aksamit AJ, Smirniotopoulos JG, Chase R, Lu AT, Bauserman SC, Grant KF, Nelson AM, Connor DH. Case for diagnosis. AIDS. Mil Med. 1986 May; 151(5):M25-32.
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  94. Aksamit AJ, Sever JL, Major EO. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: JC virus detection by in situ hybridization compared with immunohistochemistry. Neurology. 1986 Apr; 36(4):499-504.
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  95. Koenig S, Gendelman HE, Orenstein JM, Dal Canto MC, Pezeshkpour GH, Yungbluth P, Jannotta F, Aksamit AJ, Martin MA, Fauci AS. Detection of the AIDS retrovirus in macrophages in brain tissue from aids and arc patients with encephalopathy. Science. 1986; 233:1089-1093.
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  96. Dalakas MC, Aksamit AJ, Madden D, Sever JL. Administration of recombinant leukocyte alpha-2 interferon in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Arch Neurol. 1986; 433:933-935.
  97. Gendelman HE, Pezeshkpour GH, Pressman NJ, Wolinsky JS, Quarles RH, Dobersen MJ, Trapp BD, Kitt CA, Aksamit A, Johnson RT. A quantitation of myelin-associated glycoprotein and myelin basic protein loss in different demyelinating diseases. Ann Neurol. 1985 Sep; 18(3):324-8.
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  98. Aksamit AJ, Mourrain P, Sever JL, Major EO. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: investigation of three cases using in situ hybridization with JC virus biotinylated probe. Ann Neurol. 1985; 18:490-496.
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