Gastric cryptococcal infection as an initial presentation of AIDS:a rare case report  

作　　者：Rupashree Sundar Lakshmi Rao Geetha Vasudevan Pruthvi Baise Chandrappa Gowda Rau Neeleshwar Radhakrishna 

机构地区：[1]Department of Pathology,KMC,Manipal,Manipal University,India [2]Department of Medicine,KMC,Manipal,Manipal University,India

出　　处：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine》2011年第1期79-80,共2页亚太热带医药杂志（英文版）

摘　　要：Cryptococcus neoformans has been recognized as a human pathogen over centuries.This has achieved new prominence in the recent years as it is an opportunistic fungi causing fatal,deep mycotic infections in immunocompromised states.Although cryptococcus is principally a pathogen of central nervous system,wide variety of other organs may also be involved.Gastrointestinal cryptococcosis is rarely reported either as an isolated finding or in a disseminated disease. However,even with the strikingly increased incidence of the disease,occurrence of obvious gastrointestinal symptoms direcdy attributable to cryptococcosis is outstandingly rare.We report a case of gastric cryptococcal infection with esophageal herpes as an initial presentation in an AIDS patient.Cryptococcus neoformans has been recognized as a human pathogen over centuries.This has achieved new prominence in the recent years as it is an opportunistic fungi causing fatal,deep mycotic infections in immunocompromised states.Although cryptococcus is principally a pathogen of central nervous system,wide variety of other organs may also be involved.Gastrointestinal cryptococcosis is rarely reported either as an isolated finding or in a disseminated disease. However,even with the strikingly increased incidence of the disease,occurrence of obvious gastrointestinal symptoms direcdy attributable to cryptococcosis is outstandingly rare.We report a case of gastric cryptococcal infection with esophageal herpes as an initial presentation in an AIDS patient.

关 键 词：CRYPTOCOCCUS GASTROINTESTINAL IMMUNOCOMPROMISED 

分 类 号：R519[医药卫生—内科学]