Promising effects of corticosteroid treatment in combination with antifungal agents in a patient with Aspergillus meningitis

Although Aspergillus meningitis is poorly responsive to current guidelines for treatment, we describe a dramatic response of Aspergillus meningitis in a patient to treatment using a combination of corticosteroids with guideline’s suggested antifungal agents. Administration of corticosteroids in pati...

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Autores principales: Jalali, Parisa Aziz, Lotfali, Ensieh, Rezaei, Kamran, Fatemi, Alireza, Ashrafi, Farzad, Oraee‐Yazdani, Saeed, Mirdehghan, Alimohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9309737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35898764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5993
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author Jalali, Parisa Aziz
Lotfali, Ensieh
Rezaei, Kamran
Fatemi, Alireza
Ashrafi, Farzad
Oraee‐Yazdani, Saeed
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spelling pubmed-93097372022-07-26 Promising effects of corticosteroid treatment in combination with antifungal agents in a patient with Aspergillus meningitis Jalali, Parisa Aziz Lotfali, Ensieh Rezaei, Kamran Fatemi, Alireza Ashrafi, Farzad Oraee‐Yazdani, Saeed Mirdehghan, Alimohammad Clin Case Rep Case Report Although Aspergillus meningitis is poorly responsive to current guidelines for treatment, we describe a dramatic response of Aspergillus meningitis in a patient to treatment using a combination of corticosteroids with guideline’s suggested antifungal agents. Administration of corticosteroids in patients with Aspergillus meningitis is rarely reported in previous studies. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9309737/ /pubmed/35898764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5993 Text en © 2022 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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Jalali, Parisa Aziz
Lotfali, Ensieh
Rezaei, Kamran
Fatemi, Alireza
Ashrafi, Farzad
Oraee‐Yazdani, Saeed
Mirdehghan, Alimohammad
Promising effects of corticosteroid treatment in combination with antifungal agents in a patient with Aspergillus meningitis
title Promising effects of corticosteroid treatment in combination with antifungal agents in a patient with Aspergillus meningitis
title_full Promising effects of corticosteroid treatment in combination with antifungal agents in a patient with Aspergillus meningitis
title_fullStr Promising effects of corticosteroid treatment in combination with antifungal agents in a patient with Aspergillus meningitis
title_full_unstemmed Promising effects of corticosteroid treatment in combination with antifungal agents in a patient with Aspergillus meningitis
title_short Promising effects of corticosteroid treatment in combination with antifungal agents in a patient with Aspergillus meningitis
title_sort promising effects of corticosteroid treatment in combination with antifungal agents in a patient with aspergillus meningitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9309737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35898764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5993
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