Endoscopic Findings of Gastric Cryptococcosis in an Immunosuppressed Patient

A 34-year-old man with a recent HIV diagnosis presented to the emergency department with a holocranial headache and skin lesions due to cryptococcosis. He was admitted and during treatment, he presented nausea, persistent vomiting, and epigastric pain. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed multiple ro...

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Autores principales: Flores, Luis, Alvizuri, Claudia, Ramirez, Dania, Salas, Yessenia, Ojeda, Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9302253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35919412
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000830
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author Flores, Luis
Alvizuri, Claudia
Ramirez, Dania
Salas, Yessenia
Ojeda, Manuel
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description A 34-year-old man with a recent HIV diagnosis presented to the emergency department with a holocranial headache and skin lesions due to cryptococcosis. He was admitted and during treatment, he presented nausea, persistent vomiting, and epigastric pain. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed multiple round lesions with reddish elevated edges and a pale center in corpus and antrum which were positive for Cryptococcus in pathology analysis.
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spelling pubmed-93022532022-08-01 Endoscopic Findings of Gastric Cryptococcosis in an Immunosuppressed Patient Flores, Luis Alvizuri, Claudia Ramirez, Dania Salas, Yessenia Ojeda, Manuel ACG Case Rep J Case Report A 34-year-old man with a recent HIV diagnosis presented to the emergency department with a holocranial headache and skin lesions due to cryptococcosis. He was admitted and during treatment, he presented nausea, persistent vomiting, and epigastric pain. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed multiple round lesions with reddish elevated edges and a pale center in corpus and antrum which were positive for Cryptococcus in pathology analysis. Wolters Kluwer 2022-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9302253/ /pubmed/35919412 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000830 Text en © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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