https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/536282
標題: | Cryptococcal meningitis in non-HIV-infected patients | 作者: | Shih C.-C. YEE-CHUN CHEN SHAN-CHWEN CHANG KWEN-TAY LUH Hsieh W.-C. |
公開日期: | 2000 | 出版社: | Oxford University Press | 卷: | 93 | 期: | 4 | 起(迄)頁: | 245-251 | 來源出版物: | QJM - Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians | 摘要: | There are few reports on cryptococcal meningitis in non-HIV-infected patients in subtropical areas. We reviewed 94 non-HIV-infected patients microbiologically diagnosed with cryptococcal meningitis and hospitalized at National Taiwan University Hospital, 1977-1996. Forty-two patients (44.7%) had underlying diseases. The main initial manifestations were headache (86.2%), vomiting (72.3%) and fever (69.1%). The 30 patients with T-cell suppression had more acute illnesses (median duration of symptoms: 14 days vs. 29 days), less typical presentations of meningitis, and reduced inflammatory responses compared with the 64 without T cell suppression. There was no statistical difference between patients who received amphotericin B treatment for 10 weeks and those received amphotericin B with subsequent fluconazole treatment, in terms of mortality rate and recurrence rate. Seventy-five patients (79.8%) had satisfactory clinical responses, and two relapsed. Eighteen patients died (19.1%) and 10 of these died within 2 weeks of hospitalization. Patients in this series had outcomes comparable with those from temperate and even tropical countries with high percentages of immunocompetent hosts. Factors significantly associated with death were lymphoma, semicoma, leukocytosis, and initial high titres of cryptococcal antigen in cerebral spinal fluid (especially ? 1:512). On multivariate analysis, lymphoma and initial high cryptococcal antigen titres were independent predictors of mortality. |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0034113897&doi=10.1093%2fqjmed%2f93.4.245&partnerID=40&md5=9ccbc67232374d24758b031603ac8be0 https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/536282 |
ISSN: | 1460-2725 | DOI: | 10.1093/qjmed/93.4.245 | SDG/關鍵字: | amphotericin B; antifungal agent; fluconazole; fungus antigen; adolescent; adult; aged; article; child; clinical feature; disease severity; fever; fungal meningitis; headache; human; inflammation; lymphoma; major clinical study; male; mortality; multivariate analysis; priority journal; recurrence risk; T lymphocyte; Taiwan; vomiting |
顯示於: | 醫學系 |
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