Fatal fulminant cryptococcemia complicating sarcoidosis: Is it to be expected?

Cryptococcosis may be a life-threatening complication of sarcoidosis. We describe a case of cryptococcemia that rapidly progressed toward fatality without apparent other sites of infection. We discuss on the importance of serum cryptococcal polysaccharide antigen testing for identifying at-risk pati...

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Autores principales: Posteraro, Patrizia, Vacca, Katia, Celi, Massimiliano, De Angelis, Giulia, Vella, Antonietta, Sanguinetti, Maurizio, Posteraro, Brunella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6106708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30148060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.08.006
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author Posteraro, Patrizia
Vacca, Katia
Celi, Massimiliano
De Angelis, Giulia
Vella, Antonietta
Sanguinetti, Maurizio
Posteraro, Brunella
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description Cryptococcosis may be a life-threatening complication of sarcoidosis. We describe a case of cryptococcemia that rapidly progressed toward fatality without apparent other sites of infection. We discuss on the importance of serum cryptococcal polysaccharide antigen testing for identifying at-risk patients who might benefit from timely diagnosis and treatment of cryptococcosis.
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spelling pubmed-61067082018-08-24 Fatal fulminant cryptococcemia complicating sarcoidosis: Is it to be expected? Posteraro, Patrizia Vacca, Katia Celi, Massimiliano De Angelis, Giulia Vella, Antonietta Sanguinetti, Maurizio Posteraro, Brunella Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Cryptococcosis may be a life-threatening complication of sarcoidosis. We describe a case of cryptococcemia that rapidly progressed toward fatality without apparent other sites of infection. We discuss on the importance of serum cryptococcal polysaccharide antigen testing for identifying at-risk patients who might benefit from timely diagnosis and treatment of cryptococcosis. Elsevier 2018-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6106708/ /pubmed/30148060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.08.006 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Fatal fulminant cryptococcemia complicating sarcoidosis: Is it to be expected?
title Fatal fulminant cryptococcemia complicating sarcoidosis: Is it to be expected?
title_full Fatal fulminant cryptococcemia complicating sarcoidosis: Is it to be expected?
title_fullStr Fatal fulminant cryptococcemia complicating sarcoidosis: Is it to be expected?
title_full_unstemmed Fatal fulminant cryptococcemia complicating sarcoidosis: Is it to be expected?
title_short Fatal fulminant cryptococcemia complicating sarcoidosis: Is it to be expected?
title_sort fatal fulminant cryptococcemia complicating sarcoidosis: is it to be expected?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6106708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30148060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2018.08.006
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