Central nervous system cryptococcoma in a Ugandan patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Sruti S. Velamakanni; Nathan C. Bahr; Abdu K. Musubire; David R. Boulware; Joshua Rhein; Henry W. Nabeta

doi:10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.08.003

Central nervous system cryptococcoma in a Ugandan patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Sruti S. Velamakanni, Nathan C. Bahr, Abdu K. Musubire, David R. Boulware, Joshua Rhein, Henry W. Nabeta

Medicine - Infectious Disease and International

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Abstract

Mortality due to AIDS-related Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is often >50% in low-middle income countries. Dissemination of CM can result in intracranial mass lesions known as cryptococcoma. Patients who develop cryptococcomas often have worse outcomes when compared to patients with cryptococcosis without cryptococcoma. We describe a cryptococcoma in the central nervous system (CNS) in a Ugandan patient with AIDS, and review the diagnosis and management with special focus on difficulties encountered in low or middle-income countries.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	10-13
Number of pages	4
Journal	Medical Mycology Case Reports
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.08.003
State	Published - 2014

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Funding Information:
The authors are supported by the National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke , the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Fogarty International Center ( R01NS086312-01 , R01AI078934-04 , and R25TW009345-02 ). We thank Dr. Reuben Kiggundu for patient care.

Keywords

Central nervous system
Cryptococcoma
Cryptococcus meningitis
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Immunosuppressed Host

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