HIV Combination Therapy: Immune Restitution Causing Cryptococcal Lymphadenitis Dramatically Improved by Anti-inflammatory Therapy

P. Blanche

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases · 1998 · 71 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

Two patients with AIDS developed microscopically verified focal cryptococcal lymphadenitis while treated with highly active anti-retroviral therapy for 8 and 15 months. Both were treated with fluconazole as a secondary prophylaxis for prior cryptococcal meningitis. Cryptococcus neoformans did not grow. Amphotericin was ineffective. Anti-inflammatory drugs had a dramatic effect.

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