ArticleFrontiers in neurology2023
Cryptococcal infection causing longitudinal extensive transverse myelitis in an immunocompetent individual: Case report and literature review.
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- Factors associated with functional status at presentation in patients with longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2025Article
- Cryptococcal infection of the femur misdiagnosed as a primary bone tumor: A case report and literature review.The Journal of international medical research · 2025Review
- Hemorrhagic Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis (LETM) as a First Presentation of Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD): A Case Report and Literature Review.Clinical case reports · 2025Article
- Short segment myelitis as a dominant manifestation of cryptococcal infection: a case report.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Preclinical Models for Cryptococcosis of the CNS and Their Characterization Using In Vivo Imaging Techniques.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Cryptococcal CNS infections in immunocompetent individuals are occasionally reported in literature. The spinal manifestations of cryptococcal CNS infections are epidural abscess, chronic arachnoiditis, intramedullary granuloma, myelitis and vasculitis. We report a rare case of CNS cryptococcal infection presenting as a longitudinal extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) in an immunocompetent male. This report highlights cryptococcus as an important etiology among infectious causes in acute LETM patients in-spite of the immunocompetent status of the patient and the utility of CRAG (cryptococcal antigen) for diagnosis in such patients. We also present a literature review of all reported cases of cryptococcal myelitis.
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