Fatal Cryptococcal Meningitis in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are susceptible to infections, especially opportunistic infections. We have described a patient with CLL who had cryptococcal meningitis. Despite lack of previous immunosuppressive treatment history, the patient experienced serious and fatal fungal in...

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Autores principales: Dizdar, Oguzhan Sıtkı, Karakeçili, Faruk, Coşkun, Belkıs Nihan, Ener, Beyza, Ali, Rıdvan, Mıstık, Reşit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 2012
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22811788
http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2012.039
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author Dizdar, Oguzhan Sıtkı
Karakeçili, Faruk
Coşkun, Belkıs Nihan
Ener, Beyza
Ali, Rıdvan
Mıstık, Reşit
author_facet Dizdar, Oguzhan Sıtkı
Karakeçili, Faruk
Coşkun, Belkıs Nihan
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description Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are susceptible to infections, especially opportunistic infections. We have described a patient with CLL who had cryptococcal meningitis. Despite lack of previous immunosuppressive treatment history, the patient experienced serious and fatal fungal infection. Physicians should be alert for a diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis in patient with CLL who developed fever and headache.
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spelling pubmed-33957082012-07-18 Fatal Cryptococcal Meningitis in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Dizdar, Oguzhan Sıtkı Karakeçili, Faruk Coşkun, Belkıs Nihan Ener, Beyza Ali, Rıdvan Mıstık, Reşit Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis Case Reports Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are susceptible to infections, especially opportunistic infections. We have described a patient with CLL who had cryptococcal meningitis. Despite lack of previous immunosuppressive treatment history, the patient experienced serious and fatal fungal infection. Physicians should be alert for a diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis in patient with CLL who developed fever and headache. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 2012-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3395708/ /pubmed/22811788 http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2012.039 Text en 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.
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Fatal Cryptococcal Meningitis in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
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