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Relieving Manipur's misery  -  Feb 24, 2008
Ottawa Citizen,...from Médecins Sans Frontières made her vomit and soon after she caught an opportunistic infection -- cryptococcal meningitis -- that stole her sight.

The time to end drug patents is now  -  Feb 19, 2008
Bangkok Post,I visited a young man in the Din Daeng area of Bangkok who was dying from a fungal infection in the lining of his brain (cryptococcal meningitis).

CROI: Delaying HAART while treating opportunistic infections ...  -  Feb 6, 2008
Aidsmap,The most common by a large margin was Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP; 63%), followed by cryptococcal meningitis (16%) and bacterial pneumonia (12%).

Just another AIDS Day in deadly South Africa  -  Nov 29, 2007
Georgia Straight,...the years," says Karstaedt, 54, who recalls the hospital's first diagnosed case of HIV in 1987: a Sowetan man suffering from cryptococcal meningitis.

eacs: drugs that get into the brain work better for neurological ...  -  Oct 30, 2007
Aidsmap,...from two conditions – cryptococcal meningitis and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (pml) - has not improved since the early days of haart,

Heart transplant infections are studied  -  Oct 10, 2007
United Press InternationalThree patients developed cryptococcal meningitis, two had progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, two had varicella-zoster virus encephalitis and one

John E. Jordan for the Expert Panel on Neurologic Imaging  -  Oct 8, 2007
AJNR (subscription),For instance, a series of 49 HIV patients had an 82% positive yield (cryptococcal meningitis [39%], toxoplasmosis [16%], and other mass lesions) identified

The Fresh Hell Syndrome: Paradoxical Inflammatory Response After ...  -  Oct 10, 2007
DG NewsTuberculosis (TB) is the most common presenting IRIS disease; however, fungal infections and cryptococcal meningitis have also been documented.

Rare CNS Infection After Heart Transplantation Is A Significant ...  -  Oct 10, 2007
Medical News Today,Three of them developed cryptococcal meningitis, two developed progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, two had varicella-zoster virus encephalitis,

Patients with crytococcus who start HAART may develop an IRIS up ...  -  Sep 5, 2007
Aidsmap,Timing of crytococcal immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome after antiretroviral therapy in patients with AIDS and cryptococcal meningitis.

Pigeon droppings, bridge collapses, and the pigeon with the backpack  -  Aug 23, 2007
Blogger News NetworkThe worse one is cryptococcal meningitis, a rare disease that is more common in people with HIV or bad immune systems. This NewYork City site has a list of

HIV patients likely to get brain diseases  -  Jul 23, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,The most common neurological disorder was cryptococcal meningitis, an infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord, which was suffered

Does the scale of the epidemic in South Africa call for compulsory ...  -  Jun 18, 2007
Aidsmap,Our staff are dying because they don’t want to test - they come with cryptococcal meningitis and disseminated KS. That’s not a disease of ignorance,

Pattern of HIV-related central nervous system disorders varies by ...  -  Apr 26, 2007
Aidsmap,...“We probably see something on the order of 600 to 700 cases of cryptococcal meningitis per year in a one thousand bed hospital, and this is using fairly

High-Dose Amphotericin B With Flucytosine for Treatment of ...  -  Apr 3, 2007
DG News..."Cryptococcal meningitis is an extremely common invasive fungal infection and, in the era prior to the availability of antiviral therapy,

CROI: Ugandan study confirms low CD4 count, low body weight, TB ...  -  28 Feb 2007
Aidsmap,...or possibly tuberculosis, can occur during this period — and cryptococcal meningitis-IRIS can be very difficult to diagnose and rapidly fatal.

HIV-Related Memory Loss is Now Common, Says Study  -  Feb 5, 2007
AllAfrica.com,...neurologists, and where HIV infection often presents with an overwhelming opportunistic infection such as tuberculosis or cryptococcal meningitis,

Ugandan study suggests high rates of HIV-dementia in Africa  -  Jan 30, 2007
Aidsmap,...and where HIV infection often presents with an overwhelming opportunistic infection such as tuberculous or cryptococcal meningitis, it is no surprise

Doctors warn of pigeon-brain disease link  -  Jan 11, 2007
Delhi Newsline,Cryptococcal meningitis causes inflammation and swelling of the brain and the fungi can also cause infections in the lungs, kidneys, skin, urinary tract and

Meningitis feared in inmate's death  -  Jan 12, 2007
The News Journal,Chance was transferred to Young Correctional Institution, where, his attorney says, the pressure inside his head from cryptococcal meningitis affected his

‘I speak openly about this: I have HIV and my child is dying’  -  Dec 15, 2006
Tehelka (subscription),...doses available anywhere. My headaches worsened with all the worrying, and I was told that I had cryptococcal meningitis. I was ...

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