Cryptococcosis

Abstract

Cryptococcal meningitis is an opportunistic disease that may be overlooked and go undiagnosed if there is not enough knowledge and suspicion of its presence. As a result of this, it can be confused with other causes of meningoencephalitis, which favors therapeutic errors. Despite advances in antifungal therapy, the high rate of deaths due to infection by this yeast remains unchanged – between 10 and 25% – even in highly developed countries, and at least one third of patients who survive it experience clinical-therapeutic and mycological failure (or both). It is reported the case of a 58-year-old male patient who had an unfavorable progress and finally died ten months after diagnosis.

Keywords

• criptococosis