Trial reportThe Journal of infectious diseases2017
Differences in Immunologic Factors Among Patients Presenting with Altered Mental Status During Cryptococcal Meningitis.
Trial report in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Single nucleotide polymorphisms are associated with strain-specific virulence differences among clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans.Nature communications · 2024Pooled it
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- Cerebrospinal fluid cytokine-driven immune responses in HIV-negative cryptococcal meningitis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Cerebral Perfusion Pressures and Implications on Clinical Outcomes and Medical Management in Cryptococcal Meningitis.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Foxp3Research square · 2025Article
- The hypervirulent Type-1/Type-17 phenotype ofInfection and immunity · 2025Article
- Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytokines and Chemokines Involved in Cytotoxic Cell Function and Risk of Acute 14-Day Mortality in Persons with Advanced HIV and Cryptococcal Meningitis.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Neurocognitive Impairment Among Cryptococcal Meningitis Survivors in Uganda, a Prospective Cohort Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Clinical importance of cerebrospinal fluid protein levels in HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis: Insights from a prospective cohort study in Uganda.Medical mycology · 2024Article
- Mid-Upper Arm Circumference Is a Strong Predictor of Mortality Among Ugandan Adults With HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis: A Prospective Cohort Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Utility of Cerebrospinal Fluid Protein Levels as a Potential Predictive Biomarker of Disease Severity in HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- 5-Flucytosine Longitudinal Antifungal Susceptibility Testing ofOpen forum infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Cryptococcal meningitis.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023Review
- Kicking sleepers out of bed: Macrophages promote reactivation of dormant Cryptococcus neoformans by extracellular vesicle release and non-lytic exocytosis.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- Glucuronoxylomannan intranasal challenge prior to Cryptococcus neoformans pulmonary infection enhances cerebral cryptococcosis in rodents.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- Importance of Clinical Isolates inJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Cytomegalovirus viremia as a risk factor for mortality in HIV-associated cryptococcal and tuberculous meningitis.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2022Article
- Association of Hyponatremia on Mortality in Cryptococcal Meningitis: A Prospective Cohort.Open forum infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Neurocognitive outcomes of tuberculous meningitis in a primarily HIV-positive Ugandan cohort.Wellcome open research · 2021Article
- The clinical characteristics and outcome of cryptococcal meningitis with AIDS in a tertiary hospital in China: an observational cohort study.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Observational
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21 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Altered mental status in cryptococcal meningitis results in poorer survival, but underlying causes of altered mentation are poorly understood. Within two clinical trials, we assessed risk factors for altered mental status (GCS score<15) considering baseline clinical characteristics, CSF cytokines/chemokines, and antiretroviral therapy. Among 326 enrolled participants, 97 (30%) had GCS<15 and these patients had lower median CSF cryptococcal antigen titers (P = .042) and CCL2 (P = .005) but higher opening pressures (320 vs. 269 mm H2O; P = .016), IL-10 (P = .044), and CCL3 (P = .008) compared with persons with GCS=15. Altered mental status may be associated with host immune response rather than Cryptococcus burden.
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