Romiopoulos Iordanis, Pana Zoi Dorothea, Pyrpasopoulou Athina, Linardou Ioanna, Avdelidi Eugenia, Sidiropoulou Maria, Chatzidrosou Eleni, Ioannides Dimitrios, Karagiannis Asterios, Roilides Emmanuel
MD, Infectious Diseases Unit, Hippokration Hospital, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece.
MD, PhD, Infectious Diseases Unit, Hippokration Hospital, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Germs. 2020 Dec 28;10(4):388-391. doi: 10.18683/germs.2020.1232. eCollection 2020 Dec.
Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis is a life-threatening disease affecting mainly immunocompromised hosts.
We present a case of a 64-year-old immunocompetent patient, who initially developed a traumatic scalp skin infection due to . The patient received oral fluconazole and subsequently liposomal amphotericin B due to the development of resistance with resolution of the infection. Two years later, during chemotherapy for newly diagnosed gastric and lung cancer, he developed fulminant cryptococcal meningoencephalitis, which did not respond to liposomal amphotericin B and flucytosine.
To our knowledge, this is the first case of fulminant cryptococcal meningoencephalitis following long latency after adequately treated primary cutaneous infection.
隐球菌性脑膜脑炎是一种主要影响免疫功能低下宿主的危及生命的疾病。
我们报告一例64岁免疫功能正常的患者,该患者最初因……发生创伤性头皮皮肤感染。患者接受口服氟康唑治疗,随后因出现耐药且感染得到缓解而接受脂质体两性霉素B治疗。两年后,在新诊断的胃癌和肺癌化疗期间,他发生了暴发性隐球菌性脑膜脑炎,对脂质体两性霉素B和氟胞嘧啶均无反应。
据我们所知,这是首例在原发性皮肤感染得到充分治疗后经过长时间潜伏期发生暴发性隐球菌性脑膜脑炎的病例。