Paradoxical respiratory failure due to cryptococcal pneumonia after amphotericin B treatment for HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis

We present a 27-year-old lady with HIV-1 infection who died due to rapidly worsening respiratory failure one day after commencing amphotericin B deoxycholate therapy for cryptococcal meningitis. Chest x-ray appearances were consistent with pneumocystis pneumonia but post mortem examination showed ev...

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Autores principales: Scriven, James E., Botha, Francois CJ, Schutz, Charlotte, Lalloo, David G., Wainwright, Helen, Meintjes, Graeme
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Special issue section Case Studies in AIDS related Mycoses; Edited by Tihana Bicanic and Darius Armstrong-James
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5775074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29379704
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.02.004

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5775074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29379704
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.02.004

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