Disseminated Cryptococcosis in a Patient with Pituitary Cushing’s Disease

Disseminated cryptococcosis mainly occurs in patients with cell-mediated immunity disorders. A case of disseminated cryptococcosis, in a patient with pituitary Cushing’s disease, is reported. Cultures of blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and aspirates of a skin lesion all grew Cryptococcus neoformans...

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Autores principales: Kang, Cheol-In, Kim, Sung Han, Kim, Hong Bin, Oh, Myoung-don, Kim, Seong Yeon, Choe, Kang-Won
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2003
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14619392
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2003.18.3.199
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author Kang, Cheol-In
Kim, Sung Han
Kim, Hong Bin
Oh, Myoung-don
Kim, Seong Yeon
Choe, Kang-Won
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description Disseminated cryptococcosis mainly occurs in patients with cell-mediated immunity disorders. A case of disseminated cryptococcosis, in a patient with pituitary Cushing’s disease, is reported. Cultures of blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and aspirates of a skin lesion all grew Cryptococcus neoformans. Despite antifungal treatment, with amphotericin-B, the patient died within 3 weeks.
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spelling pubmed-45316202015-10-02 Disseminated Cryptococcosis in a Patient with Pituitary Cushing’s Disease Kang, Cheol-In Kim, Sung Han Kim, Hong Bin Oh, Myoung-don Kim, Seong Yeon Choe, Kang-Won Korean J Intern Med Case Report Disseminated cryptococcosis mainly occurs in patients with cell-mediated immunity disorders. A case of disseminated cryptococcosis, in a patient with pituitary Cushing’s disease, is reported. Cultures of blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and aspirates of a skin lesion all grew Cryptococcus neoformans. Despite antifungal treatment, with amphotericin-B, the patient died within 3 weeks. Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2003-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4531620/ /pubmed/14619392 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2003.18.3.199 Text en Copyright © 2003 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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