Cryptococcal meningitis
Noninvasive intracranial pressure monitoring for HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis
... Mortality and adverse neurologic sequelae from HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis (HIV-CM) remains high due to raised intracranial pressure (ICP) complications. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) high opening ...
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Strategies to reduce mortality and morbidity due to AIDS-related cryptococcal meningitis in Latin America
... prior to HAART initiation and before changing to 400 mg of fluconazole consolidation therapy should be the goal. More recently, a phase IV randomized clinical trial in Uganda and South Africa investigating the optimal ...
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LATERAL FLOW ASSAY FOR CRYPTOCOCCAL ANTIGEN: AN IMPORTANT ADVANCE TO IMPROVE THE CONTINUUM OF HIV CARE AND REDUCE CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS-RELATED MORTALITY
... Second, cryptococcal meningitis usually reveals HIV-infection in low- and middle-income countries but some studies showed other alternative scenario, particularly in middle-income countries: most ...
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Association of Fcγ receptor IIB polymorphism with cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-uninfected Chinese patients.
... that cryptococcal meningitis was associated with the FCGR2B 232I/T genotypes, which was not reported in Metediatis’ ...in cryptococcal infection is still not very ...
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Cytokine profiles at admission can be related to outcome in AIDS patients with cryptococcal meningitis.
... Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) remains as common life-threatening AIDS-defining illness mainly in resource-limited ...and cryptococcal antigen test were prospectively ...
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Efficacy of Amphotericin B in a Fat Emulsion for the Treatment of Cryptococcal Meningitis in AIDS Patients
... 2001, 58 AIDS patients diagnosed with cryptococcal meningitis (CM) were studied. Table 1 demonstrates that, of these, 21 patients (36.20%) were not included in the study to evaluate the efficacy for the ...
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Major Article Cryptococcal meningitis epidemiology: 17 years of experience in a State of the Brazilian Pantanal
... describe cryptococcal meningitis (CM) cases and the associated demographic, clinical, and microbiological data obtained from cities in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul in the Midwestern region of ...
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Cerebral Infarction Related to Cryptococcal Meningitis in an HIV-Infected Patient: Case Report and Literature Review
... chronic meningitis are usually most severe at the circle of Willis, which might explain why cerebral infarctions are frequently located in this area ...with cryptococcal meningitis ...to ...
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Cryptococcal Meningitis and SLE: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge
... py who present with neurological symptoms and signs. As the disease is related to the intensity of glucocorti- coid therapy and SLE disease activity, lowest glucocor- ticoid dose should be given in active SLE for the ...
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Ahmad Mourad, John R Perfect
... Pipeline drugs - APX001 is a first-in-class antifun- gal compound inhibiting fungal protein Gwt1 with no cross-reaction with the human protein. It has recently been shown that combining APX001 with fluconazole will ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.54 número2
... had cryptococcal meningitis and is described in this ...serum cryptococcal antigen titer was ...conclusion, cryptococcal meningitis is a rare and severe opportunistic infection in ...
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Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. vol.42 número5
... histoplasmosis, cryptococcal meningitis, crusted scabies, cerebral mass lesions, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), liver cirrhosis, nephrotic syndrome and facial ...
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Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. vol.35 número5
... with cryptococcal meningitis, we could not determine whether these sites were the real source of the fungal infection, thus in AIDS patients ...of cryptococcal meningitis among AIDS patients ...
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Arq. NeuroPsiquiatr. vol.73 número4
... Objective: To verify the relationship between intracranial pressure and flash visual evoked potentials (F-VEP) in patients with cryptococcal meningitis. Method: The sample included adults diagnosed with ...
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Cad. Saúde Pública vol.24 número11
... of cryptococcal meningitis in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, from 1994 to ...of cryptococcal meningitis were reported, with a mean inci- dence of ...for cryptococcal meningitis, ...
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Einstein (São Paulo) vol.15 número2
... with meningitis (leukocytes in CSF >9cells/μL, taking into account a leukocyte: erythrocyte correction rate of 1:500 in case of puncture accident), and treated at the Emergency Department of Hospital Israelita ...
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Central Nervous System
... The neurological manifestations directly related to HIV are acute viral meningitis, chronic meningitis, HIV-associated dementia (HAD), vacuolar myelopathy, and involvement of the periphe[r] ...
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Laboratorial Diagnosis of Lymphocytic Meningitis
... have been found in infectious and noninfectious nonmalignant inflammatory disorders. Elevated IL-10 with an IL-10 to IL-6 ratio greater than 1.0 is a strong predictor of the presence of lymphoma cells in the CSF. ...
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MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS IN CHILE
... Tests performed for diagnosing reported cases of meningococcal meningitis, Metropolitan Region, X Region, other regions, and total for the country, Chile, 1979.. Metropoli[r] ...
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Encefalitis, Meningitis y Poliomielitis
... Al comentar este trabajo, Baltimore Health News (abre. 1935) declara que aunque todavfa hay diversidad de opinión, el suero de convaleciente ya no se emplea tanto como[r] ...
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