Central nervous system cryptococcoma in a Ugandan patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Mortality due to AIDS-related Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is often >50% in low-middle income countries. Dissemination of CM can result in intracranial mass lesions known as cryptococcoma. Patients who develop cryptococcomas often have worse outcomes when compared to patients with cryptococcosis...

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Autores principales: Velamakanni, Sruti S., Bahr, Nathan C., Musubire, Abdu K., Boulware, David R., Rhein, Joshua, Nabeta, Henry W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4216327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25379390
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.08.003
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author Velamakanni, Sruti S.
Bahr, Nathan C.
Musubire, Abdu K.
Boulware, David R.
Rhein, Joshua
Nabeta, Henry W.
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description Mortality due to AIDS-related Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is often >50% in low-middle income countries. Dissemination of CM can result in intracranial mass lesions known as cryptococcoma. Patients who develop cryptococcomas often have worse outcomes when compared to patients with cryptococcosis without cryptococcoma. We describe a cryptococcoma in the central nervous system (CNS) in a Ugandan patient with AIDS, and review the diagnosis and management with special focus on difficulties encountered in low or middle-income countries.
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spelling pubmed-42163272014-11-06 Central nervous system cryptococcoma in a Ugandan patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Velamakanni, Sruti S. Bahr, Nathan C. Musubire, Abdu K. Boulware, David R. Rhein, Joshua Nabeta, Henry W. Med Mycol Case Rep Article Mortality due to AIDS-related Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is often >50% in low-middle income countries. Dissemination of CM can result in intracranial mass lesions known as cryptococcoma. Patients who develop cryptococcomas often have worse outcomes when compared to patients with cryptococcosis without cryptococcoma. We describe a cryptococcoma in the central nervous system (CNS) in a Ugandan patient with AIDS, and review the diagnosis and management with special focus on difficulties encountered in low or middle-income countries. Elsevier 2014-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4216327/ /pubmed/25379390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.08.003 Text en © 2014 International Society for Human and Animal Mycology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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