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ArticleMedical mycology case reports2014

Central nervous system cryptococcoma in a Ugandan patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Sruti S Velamakanni, Nathan C Bahr, Abdu K Musubire, David R Boulware, Joshua Rhein, Henry W Nabeta

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Article in Medical mycology case reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sruti S VelamakanniInfectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda ; Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Nathan C BahrInfectious 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.
Abdu K MusubireInfectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
David R BoulwareDivision 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 RheinInfectious 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.
Henry W NabetaInfectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

Funding

Improving Diagnostics and Neurocognitive Outcomes in HIV/AIDS-related MeningitisR01NS086312 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI David R Boulware, David Bisagaya Meya · 2013 to 2026
$8.3M
Northern/Pacific Universities Global Health Research Training ConsortiumR25TW009345 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KOLARS, JOSEPH C., NERURKAR, VIVEK RAMCHANDRA · 2012 to 2016
$5.9M
The immunopathogenesis of HIV-related Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory SyndromeR01AI078934 · NIAID · INFECTIOUS DISEASES INSTITUTE · PI KAMBUGU, ANDREW DDUNGU, MEYA, DAVID BISAGAYA · 2010 to 2013
$415k
FIC NIH HHS R25 TW009345NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI078934NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS086312
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

Indexed as

Central nervous systemCryptococcomaCryptococcus meningitisHuman Immunodeficiency VirusImmunosuppressed Host

Identifiers

PMID25379390
PMCPMC4216327

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