Cryptococcal meningitis: current approaches to management in patients with and without AIDS

KD Brizendine, PG Pappas - Current infectious disease reports, 2010 - Springer
… the management of cryptococcal meningitis in light of these recent data. … cryptococcosis. In
this study, 64 HIV-positive Thai patients with an initial episode of cryptococcal meningitis were …

Cryptococcal meningitis: diagnosis and management update

M Abassi, DR Boulware, J Rhein - Current tropical medicine reports, 2015 - Springer
… countries, where cryptococcal meningitis is most prevalent. … the diagnosis of cryptococcal
meningitis is associated with … improving care for cryptococcal meningitis patients. New trials …

Cryptococcal meningitis: a review for emergency clinicians

KM Fisher, T Montrief, M Ramzy, A Koyfman… - Internal and emergency …, 2021 - Springer
… This review evaluates the diagnosis, management, and empiric treatment of suspected CM
in … In a small study with 25 patients, 61% of patients with Cryptococcus gattii infection were …

Recent advances in the management of cryptococcal meningitis in patients with AIDS

WG Powderly - Clinical infectious diseases, 1996 - academic.oup.com
… ) responded to therapy, and none died of cryptococcosis. On the basis of these results, I
recommend that all patients with acute cryptococcal meningitis and AIDS be treated initially with …

Therapy for cryptococcal meningitis in patients with AIDS

WG Powderly - Clinical infectious diseases, 1992 - academic.oup.com
… Mycosis Study Group (MSG) established the role of amphotericin B plus flucytosine in the
management of cryptococcal meningitis in patients who did not have AIDS [3, 4]. These …

Epidemiology and management of cryptococcal meningitis: developments and challenges

R Pukkila-Worley, E Mylonakis - Expert opinion on …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… Among patients diagnosed with cryptococcal meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa, the mortality
… with cryptococcal meningitis in Lusaka, Zambia, despite the fact that 56% of the patients

Cryptococcal meningitis

T Bicanic, TS Harrison - British medical bulletin, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Patients with cryptococcal meningitis on immunosuppressive … in immunity in patients with
cryptococcal meningitis, there is a … to direct the management of raised intracranial pressure. …

Management of cryptococcosis

WE Dismukes - Clinical infectious diseases, 1993 - academic.oup.com
… For patients with cryptococcal meningitis who have hydrocephalus or other central nervous
system complications, aggressive adjunctive measures such as ventricular shunting must be …

Cryptococcal meningitis in patients with AIDS

WE Dismukes - Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1988 - academic.oup.com
… their patients with mass lesion(s) and meningitis and 100/0 with mass lesion(s) without
meningitis … to recommend that all patients with cryptococcal meningitis be evaluated for the exis- …

Cryptococcal meningitis: clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic overviews

P Satishchandra, T Mathew, G Gadre… - Neurology …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… Seizures are seen in < 8% of cases,[ 17 ] while seizures were observed in 25% of the patients
with cryptococcal meningitis in our series [Figure 1]. Examination is usually unremarkable …