Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in an AIDS Patient: Cure with Itraconazole

Treatment of New World cutaneous leishmaniasis – a systematic review with a meta‐analysis

“…[85][86][87][88][89][90][91] Initially, only case reports were available, but after 10 years in vitro testing began. 89,[92][93][94][95] The experimental results were not satisfactory, but clinical tests indicated promising results for this drug as a last resort in relapsing cases. 96 Therefore, more studies were carried out focusing on the treatment of ATL.…”

American cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis as an initial clinical presentation of human immunodeficiency virus infection

“…In patients with HIV disease and leishmaniasis, there are descriptions of good therapeutic response to N-methylglucamine in isolation [8,9,11] or in association with pentamidine and metronidazole [ 181 or allopurinol [ 191, to interferon-y concomitant with the conventional drugs and with itraconazole (211 or PentostanB [22] with zidovudine in cutaneous forms [11,21], muco-cutaneous [8,9], visceral [19,20] and cutaneous with visceralisation [ 181. It is, however, common to have frequent relapses.…”

American cutaneous leishmaniasis associated with HIV infection: report of four cases

“…Only 15 cases of HIV and cutaneous leishmaniasis have been reported in the literature to date (Table 1). In this paper, four additional cases of dermotropic Leishma- Pialoux et al [26] Bastuji-Garin et al [27] Cunha et al [28] Machado et al [24] Echevm'a et al 1291…”