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Pulmonary Cryptococcosis

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Pulmonary cryptococcosis describes an invasive lung mycosis caused by Cryptococcus neoformans or Cryptococcus gattii complex. It is often a high-consequence disease in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent populations, and may be misdiagnosed as ...
Annaleise R. Howard-Jones, Rebecca Sparks, David Pham, Catriona Halliday, Justin Beardsley, Sharon C.-A. Chen   +5 more
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Miliary pulmonary cryptococcosis

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2014
A 32-year-old HIV positive male presents with fevers and a non-productive cough. Initial X-ray and subsequent computerised tomography of the chest shows a bilateral miliary pattern of pulmonary infiltration highly suggestive of disseminated tuberculosis.
Shane Kelly, Deborah Marriott
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Pulmonary cryptococcosis coexisting with adenocarcinoma: a case report and review of the literature

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018
Background Pulmonary cryptococcosis is a common fungal infection frequently seen in immunocompromised patients. Owing to its nonspecific clinical and radiographic features, the differential diagnosis with secondary tuberculosis, malignant tumor, and ...
Liyang Li, Liang Zhuang, Jian Zhou, Changzhou Shao   +3 more
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Characteristics of pulmonary cryptococcosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2021
Background and objective A high frequency of infections complicating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been reported due to the immunomodulatory effect of RA or to agents with immunosuppressive effects used in its treatment.
Ryuji Uozumi, Noboru Takayanagi, Takashi Ishiguro, Miyuki Ueda, Chiaki Hosoda, Naomi Takata   +5 more
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Pulmonary cryptococcosis mimicking lung cancer with multiple lung metastases

Respirology Case Reports
Key message The differential diagnosis of a lung mass with multiple pulmonary nodules includes metastases of lung cancer, mycobacterial infections, and pulmonary mycosis.
Hiroshi Ohnishi, Taro Horino, Hideki Nakajima, Akihito Yokoyama   +3 more
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Pulmonary cryptococcosis: An unusual presentation

Lung India, 2013
Cryptococcal infection of the lung is usually asymptomatic in immunocompetent hosts. Symptomatic cryptococcal lung infection presenting as an endobronchial mass lesion in an immunocompetent host is rare.
Anand K Babu, Ram Gopalakrishnan, L Sundararajan   +2 more
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Increased mortality associated with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus in patients with pulmonary cryptococcosis: a single US cohort study

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2021
Background: Diabetes mellitus is an established risk factor for bacterial infections, but its role in cryptococcosis is unclear. The study aimed to determine whether uncontrolled diabetes (HbA1c >7%) was an independent risk factor for mortality in ...
Solana Archuleta, Amal A. Gharamti, Stefan Sillau, Paula Castellanos, Sindhu Chadalawada, William Mundo, Mehdi Bandali, Jose Oñate, Ernesto Martínez, Daniel B. Chastain, Kristen DeSanto, Leland Shapiro, Ilan S. Schwartz, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Andrés F. Henao-Martínez   +14 more
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Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for primary pulmonary cryptococcosis

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2022
Background: The surgical outcome for primary pulmonary cryptococcosis remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the clinical characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for primary pulmonary ...
Chao-Wen Lu, Wang-Da Liu, Hsao-Hsun Hsu, Un-In Wu, Yung-Ming Jeng, Yee-Chun Chen, Jin-Shing Chen   +6 more
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Pulmonary cryptococcosis in non-AIDS patients

, 2009
Purpose: To clarify the clinical features and imaging characteristics of non-AIDS patients with pulmonary cryptococcosis. Methods: We retrospectively collected 15 HIV-negative patients with pathology-proved pulmonary cryptococcosis from Sep1992 to Jan ...
Benquan Wu, Jing Huang, Tiantuo Zhang, Wenxian Zhang, Hui Liu   +4 more
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Crazy‐paving patterns as rare radiological manifestations of pulmonary cryptococcosis: a case report

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2021
Background Crazy-paving patterns are rarely reported as radiological manifestations of pulmonary cryptococcosis. Case presentation Herein, we presented a very rare case of a crazy-paving pattern as a radiological manifestation of pulmonary cryptococcosis
He Yu, Kaige Wang, Dong Huang, Lu Wen, Ying Zhang, Ye Wang, Yongjiang Tang, Jiajia Dong, Zongan Liang   +8 more
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