Cryptococcal meningitis presenting with recurrent syncope in a patient with chronic lymphoid leukemia: a case report

The clinical presentations of cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-negative patients may be different from that infected with HIV. We report a case of 75-year old male with chronic lymphoid leukemia presenting with recurrent syncope, bi-frontal headache and diplopia. This case discusses the atypical prese...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Imdad, Powell, Steven, Hoth, Michael, Javed, Ahmed, Moen, Steffany K, Haehn, Melissa R
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-103
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author Ahmed, Imdad
Powell, Steven
Hoth, Michael
Javed, Ahmed
Moen, Steffany K
Haehn, Melissa R
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Hoth, Michael
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description The clinical presentations of cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-negative patients may be different from that infected with HIV. We report a case of 75-year old male with chronic lymphoid leukemia presenting with recurrent syncope, bi-frontal headache and diplopia. This case discusses the atypical presentations of cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-negative patients and its importance of early diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-26403492009-02-12 Cryptococcal meningitis presenting with recurrent syncope in a patient with chronic lymphoid leukemia: a case report Ahmed, Imdad Powell, Steven Hoth, Michael Javed, Ahmed Moen, Steffany K Haehn, Melissa R Cases J Case Report The clinical presentations of cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-negative patients may be different from that infected with HIV. We report a case of 75-year old male with chronic lymphoid leukemia presenting with recurrent syncope, bi-frontal headache and diplopia. This case discusses the atypical presentations of cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-negative patients and its importance of early diagnosis. BioMed Central 2009-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2640349/ /pubmed/19178720 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-103 Text en Copyright ©2009 Ahmed et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Ahmed, Imdad
Powell, Steven
Hoth, Michael
Javed, Ahmed
Moen, Steffany K
Haehn, Melissa R
Cryptococcal meningitis presenting with recurrent syncope in a patient with chronic lymphoid leukemia: a case report
title Cryptococcal meningitis presenting with recurrent syncope in a patient with chronic lymphoid leukemia: a case report
title_full Cryptococcal meningitis presenting with recurrent syncope in a patient with chronic lymphoid leukemia: a case report
title_fullStr Cryptococcal meningitis presenting with recurrent syncope in a patient with chronic lymphoid leukemia: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Cryptococcal meningitis presenting with recurrent syncope in a patient with chronic lymphoid leukemia: a case report
title_short Cryptococcal meningitis presenting with recurrent syncope in a patient with chronic lymphoid leukemia: a case report
title_sort cryptococcal meningitis presenting with recurrent syncope in a patient with chronic lymphoid leukemia: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-103
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