Sudden blindness due to bilateral optic neuropathy associated with cryptococcal meningitis in an AIDS patient;Ceguera súbita debida a neuropatía óptica bilateral asociada con meningitis por Cryptococcus neoformans en un paciente con sida

Revista Iberoamericana de Micologia

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 207-209

  Corti, Marcelo ^a   Solari, Rubén ^a   Cangelosi, Diana ^a   Domínguez, Cecilia ^a   Yampolsky, Claudio ^a   Negroni, Ricardo ^a   Arechavala, Alicia ^a   Schtirbu, Ricardo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL F J MUÑIZ   (Argentina)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cryptococcosis; Cryptococcus neoformans; Optic neuropathy; Sudden blindness

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; INDINAVIR; LAMIVUDINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIXED INFECTION; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TACHYCARDIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIRUS LOAD; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; BLINDNESS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 78649979312     PISSN: 11301406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.riam.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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