Cryptococcosis with bird’s eye manifestation: A case report

Cryptococcosis is a menacing opportunistic infection most commonly affecting immunocompromised individuals. Its occurrence in immunocompetant individuals is uncustomary. Disseminated cryptococcosis is subtile in immunocompetent individuals. Cryptococcosis presenting with myriad of symptoms with invo...

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Autores principales: Suhas, HS, Utpat, Ketaki, Desai, Unnati, Vedpathak, Manoj, Joshi, Jyotsna M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29697086
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_397_17
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author Suhas, HS
Utpat, Ketaki
Desai, Unnati
Vedpathak, Manoj
Joshi, Jyotsna M
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description Cryptococcosis is a menacing opportunistic infection most commonly affecting immunocompromised individuals. Its occurrence in immunocompetant individuals is uncustomary. Disseminated cryptococcosis is subtile in immunocompetent individuals. Cryptococcosis presenting with myriad of symptoms with involvement of lung, meninges, hematological system is rare. We present to you a unique case of disseminated cryptococcosis presenting as bilateral pulmonary nodular opacities with peripheral eosinophilia and meningitis along with a narration of the enthralling diagnostic process.
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spelling pubmed-59465622018-05-21 Cryptococcosis with bird’s eye manifestation: A case report Suhas, HS Utpat, Ketaki Desai, Unnati Vedpathak, Manoj Joshi, Jyotsna M Lung India Case Report Cryptococcosis is a menacing opportunistic infection most commonly affecting immunocompromised individuals. Its occurrence in immunocompetant individuals is uncustomary. Disseminated cryptococcosis is subtile in immunocompetent individuals. Cryptococcosis presenting with myriad of symptoms with involvement of lung, meninges, hematological system is rare. We present to you a unique case of disseminated cryptococcosis presenting as bilateral pulmonary nodular opacities with peripheral eosinophilia and meningitis along with a narration of the enthralling diagnostic process. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5946562/ /pubmed/29697086 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_397_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Chest Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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