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ArticleClinical case reports2021

Cryptococcemia in a patient with COVID-19: A case report.

Mohamad Y Khatib, Amna A Ahmed, Said B Shaat, Ahmed S Mohamed, Abdulqadir J Nashwan

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Description of Cryptococcosis Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Disease Survey Through the Mycosis Study Group Education and Research Consortium (MSG-19).Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
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  10. Meningeal cryptococcosis and SARS-CoV-2 infection in people living with HIV/AIDS.Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2023
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  19. Overview of COVID-19-Associated Invasive Fungal Infection.Current fungal infection reports · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mohamad Y KhatibCritical Care Medicine Department Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital (HMGH) Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Doha Qatar.
Amna A AhmedCritical Care Medicine Department Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital (HMGH) Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Doha Qatar.
Said B ShaatCritical Care Medicine Department Hamad General Hospital (HGH) Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Doha Qatar.
Ahmed S MohamedCritical Care Medicine Department Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital (HMGH) Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Doha Qatar.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2107-5357
Abdulqadir J NashwanCritical Care Medicine Department Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital (HMGH) Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Doha Qatar.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4845-4119

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The authors urge clinicians to balance the use of Immunosuppressant drugs and tocilizumab for COVID-19 patients to avoid the development of infections like Cryptococcemia, leading to death within 30 days.

Indexed as

corticosteroidsCOVID‐19cryptococcemiaCryptococcus neoformanstocilizumab

Identifiers

PMID33598258
PMCPMC7869327

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