Qureshi, Mehak and Abdelazeem, Basel and Khan, Ashiya and Najjar, Mazen (2021) A Rare Presentation of Cryptococcal Meningitis in a Treatment-Naive Patient with Sarcoidosis. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 8 (8). pp. 1-4. ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated, yeast-like fungus that commonly lives in the environment due to soil contamination by the faeces of birds, especially pigeons. Cryptococcus is an opportunistic fungal infection frequently diagnosed in immunocompromised patients with HIV, steroid use, malignancy, history of organ transplantation, or, rarely, sarcoidosis. There have been only a few reports of cryptococcus infection in sarcoidosis patients who were not on steroid treatment. Here, we highlight the importance of considering opportunistic fungal infection in asymptomatic treatment-naive sarcoidosis patients. We present a patient with a history of asymptomatic, treatment-naive sarcoidosis who presented with headache and was diagnosed with cryptococcal meningitis in the presence of an idiopathic T-cell lymphopenia.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cryptococcus neoformans, meningitis, sarcoidosis |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2022 16:31 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2022 16:31 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/21451 |
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