Cryptococcal meningitis

T Bicanic, TS Harrison - British medical bulletin, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… least a month after the diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis. Prognostic factors and outcome
… suggested that the outcome for non-HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis may be worse …

The prognostic factors of cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-negative patients

CH Lu, WN Chang, HW Chang, YC Chuang - Journal of Hospital Infection, 1999 - Elsevier
… compromized patients.In the past, the cornerstone of therapy for cryptococcal meningitis
Because cryptococcal meningitis is a potentially fatal central nervous system (CNS) infection, …

Diagnostic and prognostic value of clinical and laboratory findings in cryptococcal meningitis: a follow-up study of forty patients

WT Butler, DW Alling, A Spickard… - New England Journal of …, 1964 - Mass Medical Soc
… In the present report 40 cases of cryptococcal meningitis seen at the National Institutes of …
findings before treatment and the relation of these findings to the outcome of treatment. Finally, …

Prognosis and management of cryptococcal meningitis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection

J Rhein, DR Boulware - Neurobehavioral HIV Medicine, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
… improving care for cryptococcal meningitis patients in resource-… Universal cryptococcal
antigen screening of AIDS patients, … the early diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis markedly in …

Cryptococcal meningitis: epidemiology, immunology, diagnosis and therapy

PR Williamson, JN Jarvis, AA Panackal… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
… 500 patients with HIV-related cryptococcal meningitis confirmed and extended our understanding
of the factors associated with poor outcome … , and baseline fungal burden (assessed by …

Cryptococcal meningitis: outcome in patients with AIDS and patients with neoplastic disease

M White, C Cirrincione, A Blevins… - Journal of Infectious …, 1992 - academic.oup.com
patients with a variety of underlying diagnoses [1, 9, 10]. To compare the outcome from
cryptococcal meningitis among patients … not vary with disease severity or underlying diagnosis. …

[HTML][HTML] The clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcomes of cryptococcal meningitis in elderly patients: a hospital-based study

WC Tsai, CY Lien, JJ Lee, WC Hsiao, CR Huang… - BMC geriatrics, 2019 - Springer
… with CM was high in this study, and the presence of cryptococcemia was an important
prognostic factor for this specific group of patients. This study is limited by the small number of …

The change in the neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio predicts the prognosis of patients with cryptococcal meningitis

K Zhang, H Li, L Zhang, W Liao, L Cai, X Li, W Pan… - Mycopathologia, 2021 - Springer
outcome of CM patients. [14] However, the association of the change in NLR and PLR of
cryptococcal meningitis patients during treatment … clinical data of patients at admission and after …

Cryptococcal meningitis in patients with AIDS

WE Dismukes - Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1988 - academic.oup.com
… [3] reported that CT scans of the head done within the first week of diagnosis in 13 patients
with AIDS and CNS cryptococcosis revealed abnormal results in four [3]. Two of these …

Cryptococcal meningitis in non‐HIV‐infected patients

CC Shih, YC Chen, SC Chang, KT Luh, WC Hsieh - Qjm, 2000 - academic.oup.com
… Since there are few data on the clinical characteristics and prognosis of cryptococcal meningitis
in subtropical countries such as Taiwan, we reviewed the clinical features and efficacy of …