Massive cerebral edema resulting in brain death as a complication of Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis

• Ngā kaituhi matua: Jose Orsini (Author), Christa Blaak (Author), Dalia Mahmoud (Author), Jeong Young-Gwang (Author)
• Hōputu: Pukapuka
• I whakaputaina: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2015-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Ngā marau: article
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Despite the widespread use of highly active antiretroviral therapy, cryptococcal meningoencephalitis has emerged as the second leading cause of infectious morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected patients worldwide. It presents usually as subacute or chronic disease but occasionally may be fulminant....