CNS aspergillosis in a patient with Crohn’s disease on immunosuppressants: a case report

Fungal infections of the central nervous system are an uncommon cause of rapid decline in consciousness. We describe the case of central nervous system aspergillosis in a patient on immunosupressants whose clinical course highlights the need for an aggressive approach to diagnosis.

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Autores principales: Shah, Shreyansh, Shirani, Peyman, Schmolck, Heike, Young, William C, Schulz, Paul E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829797
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6376
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author Shah, Shreyansh
Shirani, Peyman
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Young, William C
Schulz, Paul E
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spelling pubmed-27400802009-10-14 CNS aspergillosis in a patient with Crohn’s disease on immunosuppressants: a case report Shah, Shreyansh Shirani, Peyman Schmolck, Heike Young, William C Schulz, Paul E Cases J Case report Fungal infections of the central nervous system are an uncommon cause of rapid decline in consciousness. We describe the case of central nervous system aspergillosis in a patient on immunosupressants whose clinical course highlights the need for an aggressive approach to diagnosis. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2740080/ /pubmed/19829797 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6376 Text en © 2009 Shah et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Shah, Shreyansh
Shirani, Peyman
Schmolck, Heike
Young, William C
Schulz, Paul E
CNS aspergillosis in a patient with Crohn’s disease on immunosuppressants: a case report
title CNS aspergillosis in a patient with Crohn’s disease on immunosuppressants: a case report
title_full CNS aspergillosis in a patient with Crohn’s disease on immunosuppressants: a case report
title_fullStr CNS aspergillosis in a patient with Crohn’s disease on immunosuppressants: a case report
title_full_unstemmed CNS aspergillosis in a patient with Crohn’s disease on immunosuppressants: a case report
title_short CNS aspergillosis in a patient with Crohn’s disease on immunosuppressants: a case report
title_sort cns aspergillosis in a patient with crohn’s disease on immunosuppressants: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740080/
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