Comparisons of presentations and outcomes of cryptococcal meningitis between patients with and without hepatitis B virus infection

Abstract

Certain clinical features of CM were found to be significantly different between HBV-infected and HBV-uninfected patients, including age and initial laboratory findings, as well as the indicators of an unsatisfactory outcome. Host defense defects in the HBV-infected group may lead to a lower intensity of inflammation in the pathogenesis of CM compared with the HBV-uninfected patients and may account for these divergences between the two groups.