Clinical and laboratory characteristics of 104 cryptococcus meningoencephalitis cases

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Lucena, Rita¹  Darzé, Calil¹  Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador¹  Gomes, Irênio¹  Melo, Ailton¹ 

关键词: Meningoencephalitis;    Meningitis;    Cryptococcosis;    Cryptococcus neoformans;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822000000100003

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

With the purpose of describing the clinical and laboratory characteristics of cryptococcus meningoencephalitis, we reviewed the records of 104 patients admitted with this diagnosis at Couto Maia Hospital, reference for patients with infectious diseases in Salvador-BA Northeastern Brazil, from 1972 to 1996. The patients' age varied from 8 months to 79 years. Sixty-four (61.5%) patients were male. The duration of the disease varied from 2 to 150 days, average 27.7 days. The most common signs and symptoms were headache (92.7%), fever (84.4%) and neck stiffness (83.2%). The cell number in cerebrospinal fluid was greater than 4/mmž in 95.8% of the patients with lymphocyte predominance in 86.3% of the cases. The lethality rate was 42.7%.

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