Entrapment Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Cryptococcal Meningitis

Cryptococcus neoformans primarily affects immunocompromised individuals and the central nervous system (CNS) is the most common site of dissemination. Entrapped temporal horn syndrome (ETH) remains a rare CNS manifestation and has not previously been described in solid organ transplant recipients. H...

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Autores principales: Reddy, Laya, Thompson, George R., Koff, Alan, Cohen, Stuart H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10223468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37242381
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12050711
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author Reddy, Laya
Thompson, George R.
Koff, Alan
Cohen, Stuart H.
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description Cryptococcus neoformans primarily affects immunocompromised individuals and the central nervous system (CNS) is the most common site of dissemination. Entrapped temporal horn syndrome (ETH) remains a rare CNS manifestation and has not previously been described in solid organ transplant recipients. Here, we present a case of ETH in a 55-year-old woman with history of renal transplant and prior treated Cryptococcal meningitis.
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spelling pubmed-102234682023-05-28 Entrapment Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Cryptococcal Meningitis Reddy, Laya Thompson, George R. Koff, Alan Cohen, Stuart H. Pathogens Case Report Cryptococcus neoformans primarily affects immunocompromised individuals and the central nervous system (CNS) is the most common site of dissemination. Entrapped temporal horn syndrome (ETH) remains a rare CNS manifestation and has not previously been described in solid organ transplant recipients. Here, we present a case of ETH in a 55-year-old woman with history of renal transplant and prior treated Cryptococcal meningitis. MDPI 2023-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10223468/ /pubmed/37242381 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12050711 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Entrapment Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Cryptococcal Meningitis
title Entrapment Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Cryptococcal Meningitis
title_full Entrapment Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Cryptococcal Meningitis
title_fullStr Entrapment Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Cryptococcal Meningitis
title_full_unstemmed Entrapment Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Cryptococcal Meningitis
title_short Entrapment Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient with Cryptococcal Meningitis
title_sort entrapment syndrome in a kidney transplant recipient with cryptococcal meningitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10223468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37242381
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12050711
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