Central nervous system cryptococcoma in a Ugandan patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Mortality due to AIDS-related Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is often >50% in low-middle income countries. Dissemination of CM can result in intracranial mass lesions known as cryptococcoma. Patients who develop cryptococcomas often have worse outcomes when compared to patients with cryptococcosis without cryptococcoma. We describe a cryptococcoma in the central nervous system (CNS) in a Ugandan patient with AIDS, and review the diagnosis and management with special focus on difficulties encountered in low or middle-income countries.
Infectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda ; Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Sruti S
SS
Velamakanni
Infectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda ; Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA ; Center for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Translational Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Nathan C
NC
Bahr
Infectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Abdu K
AK
Musubire
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA ; Center for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Translational Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
David R
DR
Boulware
Infectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda ; Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA ; Center for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Translational Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Joshua
J
Rhein
Infectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Henry W
HW
Nabeta
Central nervous system; Cryptococcoma; Cryptococcus meningitis; Human Immunodeficiency Virus; Immunosuppressed Host