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Massive cerebral edema resulting in brain death as a complication of Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis

Despite the widespread use of highly active antiretroviral therapy, cryptococcal meningoencephalitis has emerged as the second leading cause of infectious morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected patients worldwide. It presents usually as subacute or chronic disease but occasionally may be fulminant....

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Autores principales: Orsini, Jose, Blaak, Christa, Mahmoud, Dalia, Young-Gwang, Jeong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25656669
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v5.26098