Review Article
Year: 2019 | Month: July-September | Volume: 4 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 47-50
Cryptococcal Meningitis in HIV Patients and Its Management
Dr. Rahul Yeole
Resident Doctor, Dr. Hedgewar Ruganlaya, Aurangabad-431005, MS, India
ABSTRACT
Cryptococcal meningitis is infectious disease and has emerged as a number one reason for infectious morbidity and mortality in patients with AIDS. Among the human immunological disorder virus (HIV)-seropositive subjects, cryptococcal infectious disease is that the second commonest cause of opportunistic neuro-infection. Cryptococcal infectious disease happens in non-HIV patients who are immunodeficient due to diabetes, cancer, solid organ transplants, chemotherapeutic drugs, hematological malignancies etc and rarely in healthy individuals with no obvious predisposing factors.
Diagnosis of cryptococcal infectious disease is fairly simple once the diagnosing is considered in the differential diagnosis of chronic infectious disease. Treatment of a patient with cryptococcal infection is a challenge for both the physician and the patient, but rewarding, as many would recover with timely and adequate antifungal therapy.
Keywords: Cryptococcal meningitis, HIV, AIDS