Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in cryptococcal meningitis - A rare phenomenon?;Immunrekonstitutions- und Inflammationssyndrom bei Kryptokokkose - eine Seltenheit?

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 137, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 834-837

  Schulze, K ^a   Schmiedel, S ^a   Van Lunzen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

cryptococcal meningitis; HIV infection; immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; INDIAN INK; STEROID;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HEADACHE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROSCOPY; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHOTOPHOBIA; POLYDIPSIA; VOMITING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; RARE DISEASES;

EID: 84859526114     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: 14394413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1304867     Document Type: Article

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