Title: [Cutaneous and lymphatic cryptococcosis after transient lymphopenia in an immunocompetent patient].
Abstract: Cryptococcosis is an opportunistic infection, that rarely occurs in immunocompetent patients.We report a case of a 82 year-old woman who suffered from a bacterial pneumonia associated with lymphopenia. During the hospitalisation, she developed a cutaneous and ganglionnary cryptococcosis. No other cause of immunosuppression was found. The lymphopenia disappeared with the healing of the pneumonia treated with systemic antibiotics. Treatment with fluconazole was effective in 2 months on the cryptococcosis.To our knowledge, this is the first case of cryptococcosis after a transitory lymphopenia, occurring in a immunocompetent patient.
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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