Cryptococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent individual: A case report

Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is mostly seen in immune‐compromised patients and rarely occurs in immune‐competent individuals. Immunocompetent individuals with CM present with indolent neurological disease and have better clinical outcomes after treatment. However, misdiagnosis is common and these pa...

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Autores principales: Acharya, Suman, Yadav, Sushil Kumar, Singh, Prabesh Bikram, Bhandari, Siddhartha, Gautam, Jeevan, Pathak, Santosh, Nepal, Gaurav, Sah, Ranjit, Ojha, Rajeev
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8489394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34631078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4894
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author Acharya, Suman
Yadav, Sushil Kumar
Singh, Prabesh Bikram
Bhandari, Siddhartha
Gautam, Jeevan
Pathak, Santosh
Nepal, Gaurav
Sah, Ranjit
Ojha, Rajeev
author_facet Acharya, Suman
Yadav, Sushil Kumar
Singh, Prabesh Bikram
Bhandari, Siddhartha
Gautam, Jeevan
Pathak, Santosh
Nepal, Gaurav
Sah, Ranjit
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description Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is mostly seen in immune‐compromised patients and rarely occurs in immune‐competent individuals. Immunocompetent individuals with CM present with indolent neurological disease and have better clinical outcomes after treatment. However, misdiagnosis is common and these patients may suffer from serious complications with high mortality.
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spelling pubmed-84893942021-10-08 Cryptococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent individual: A case report Acharya, Suman Yadav, Sushil Kumar Singh, Prabesh Bikram Bhandari, Siddhartha Gautam, Jeevan Pathak, Santosh Nepal, Gaurav Sah, Ranjit Ojha, Rajeev Clin Case Rep Case Reports Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is mostly seen in immune‐compromised patients and rarely occurs in immune‐competent individuals. Immunocompetent individuals with CM present with indolent neurological disease and have better clinical outcomes after treatment. However, misdiagnosis is common and these patients may suffer from serious complications with high mortality. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8489394/ /pubmed/34631078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4894 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Yadav, Sushil Kumar
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Bhandari, Siddhartha
Gautam, Jeevan
Pathak, Santosh
Nepal, Gaurav
Sah, Ranjit
Ojha, Rajeev
Cryptococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent individual: A case report
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title_full Cryptococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent individual: A case report
title_fullStr Cryptococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent individual: A case report
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title_short Cryptococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent individual: A case report
title_sort cryptococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent individual: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8489394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34631078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4894
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