2019
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00812
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Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome Secondary to Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia and Cryptococcal Meningitis

Abstract: A 47-year-old HIV-seronegative woman with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) was treated with corticosteroids for 8 months. She developed central nervous system dysfunction and was diagnosed with cryptococcal meningitis (CM) after detecting cryptococcus neoformans in the cerebrospinal fluid. The patient's clinical symptoms were worsened and unusual MRI findings of white matter lesions were noticed even after adequate treatment, which were quite unusual compared with typical characteristics of CM. This led us t… Show more

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