Chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient successfully treated with fluconazole

A 43-year-old female with advanced HIV infection presented with two chronic skin lesions. Cutaneous cryptococcosis was confirmed and pulmonary cryptococcosis was suspected. The patient was neurologically asymptomatic and the cerebrospinal fluid cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay was negative. S...

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Autores principales: Yonekura, Tatiane da Silveira, Macedo, Soraya Devi, Moya, Fernanda Gonçalves, Vidal, José Ernesto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9636007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36345352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2022.10.001
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author Yonekura, Tatiane da Silveira
Macedo, Soraya Devi
Moya, Fernanda Gonçalves
Vidal, José Ernesto
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description A 43-year-old female with advanced HIV infection presented with two chronic skin lesions. Cutaneous cryptococcosis was confirmed and pulmonary cryptococcosis was suspected. The patient was neurologically asymptomatic and the cerebrospinal fluid cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay was negative. She received oral fluconazole and had resolution of the skin lesions and significant improvement of the lung lesions. We report a person with AIDS with chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement successfully treated with oral fluconazole.
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spelling pubmed-96360072022-11-06 Chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient successfully treated with fluconazole Yonekura, Tatiane da Silveira Macedo, Soraya Devi Moya, Fernanda Gonçalves Vidal, José Ernesto Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report A 43-year-old female with advanced HIV infection presented with two chronic skin lesions. Cutaneous cryptococcosis was confirmed and pulmonary cryptococcosis was suspected. The patient was neurologically asymptomatic and the cerebrospinal fluid cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay was negative. She received oral fluconazole and had resolution of the skin lesions and significant improvement of the lung lesions. We report a person with AIDS with chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement successfully treated with oral fluconazole. Elsevier 2022-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9636007/ /pubmed/36345352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2022.10.001 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Moya, Fernanda Gonçalves
Vidal, José Ernesto
Chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient successfully treated with fluconazole
title Chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient successfully treated with fluconazole
title_full Chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient successfully treated with fluconazole
title_fullStr Chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient successfully treated with fluconazole
title_full_unstemmed Chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient successfully treated with fluconazole
title_short Chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient successfully treated with fluconazole
title_sort chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement in a severely immunosuppressed hiv-infected patient successfully treated with fluconazole
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9636007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36345352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2022.10.001
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