Successful management of post-COVID-19 acanthamoebic encephalitis

Acanthamoebic encephalitis is a rare and highly fatal disease that has no standard management protocol. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes immune dysfunction and may predispose patients to this infection. The present study describes successful management of acanthamoebic encephalitis in a yo...

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Autores principales: Siripurapu, Govinda, Samad, Sameer Abdul, Fatima, Saman, Wig, Naveet, Srivastava, M.V. Padma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34302963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.07.046
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description Acanthamoebic encephalitis is a rare and highly fatal disease that has no standard management protocol. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes immune dysfunction and may predispose patients to this infection. The present study describes successful management of acanthamoebic encephalitis in a young male who recently recovered from COVID-19 using a combination of medical and surgical approaches. A combination of miltefosine with other agents with trophicidal and cysticidal activities should be used in the regimen. Surgical excision of the abscess should be undertaken whenever feasible.
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spelling pubmed-82950522021-07-22 Successful management of post-COVID-19 acanthamoebic encephalitis Siripurapu, Govinda Samad, Sameer Abdul Fatima, Saman Wig, Naveet Srivastava, M.V. Padma Int J Infect Dis Case Report Acanthamoebic encephalitis is a rare and highly fatal disease that has no standard management protocol. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes immune dysfunction and may predispose patients to this infection. The present study describes successful management of acanthamoebic encephalitis in a young male who recently recovered from COVID-19 using a combination of medical and surgical approaches. A combination of miltefosine with other agents with trophicidal and cysticidal activities should be used in the regimen. Surgical excision of the abscess should be undertaken whenever feasible. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2021-09 2021-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8295052/ /pubmed/34302963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.07.046 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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