Cryptococcal meningitis and cerebral toxoplasmosis in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. NLM AIDSLINE Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1986. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.

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Cryptococcal meningitis and cerebral toxoplasmosis in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1986 Mar;49(3):328-30. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/86170569
Bahls F; Sumi SM

Abstract: A 34-year-old homosexual male developed cryptococcal meningitis as the initial manifestation of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). With antifungal therapy he improved. Six weeks later he developed focal motor seizures and progressive hemiplegia. Computer assisted tomography revealed multiple, ring-enhancing, low density lesions. The patient expired and at necropsy he was found to have multiple toxoplasma brain abscesses as well as chronic cryptococcal meningitis. This case demonstrates that in a patient with AIDS with pre-existing central nervous system infection who develops new neurological symptoms the possibility of a second and potentially treatable infection must be considered and its diagnosis pursued vigorously.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*COMPLICATIONS/PATHOLOGY Adult Brain/*PATHOLOGY Brain Diseases/*COMPLICATIONS Case Report Cryptococcosis/*COMPLICATIONS/PATHOLOGY Human Male Meningitis/*COMPLICATIONS/PATHOLOGY Toxoplasmosis/*COMPLICATIONS/PATHOLOGY JOURNAL ARTICLE

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