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| Title |
Characteristics and outcomes of cryptococcal meningitis in HIV seronegative children in Beijing, China, 2002–2013
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| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, November 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12879-016-1964-6 |
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| Authors |
Ling-yun Guo, Lin-lin Liu, Yue Liu, Tian-ming Chen, Shao-ying Li, Yong-hong Yang, Gang Liu |
| Abstract |
Data regarding HIV-seronegative pediatric patients with cryptococcal meningitis (CM) have been very limited. We retrospectively reviewed non-HIV-infected in patients with CM from January 2002 through December 2013 in Beijing Children's Hospital. Records of the all patients were obtained and compared. The 34 children had a median age of 5.6 years. Most of the patients were male (67.6 %). Only 23.5 % of the cases had identifiable underlying diseases. The sensitivity of the CSF cryptococcal antigen, India ink smear and CSF culture in our study were 81.5, 85.3 and 82.4 %, respectively. And the sensitivity of combinations of these tests was 91.2 %. Out of the 34 patients, 16 (47.1 %) had other organs involvement in addition to the brain. The main abnormal features via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were Virchow-Robin space dilatation (44.4 %), hydrocephalus (38.9 %), gelatinous pseudocysts (33.3 %), brain atrophy (33.3 %), meningeal enhancement (27.8 %) and local lesions (27.8 %). In total, 64.7 % of the patients were successfully treated at discharge, whereas treatment failed in 35.3 % of the patients. Cryptococcal meningitis is an infrequent disease with a high fatality rate in children in China. The majority of patients were apparently healthy. Clinicians should consider cryptococcal infection as a potential pathogen of pediatric meningitis. Cryptococcal antigen, India ink smear and culture tests are recommended for diagnosis. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 51 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 20% |
| Researcher | 8 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 12% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 14% |
| Unknown | 12 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 22 | 43% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 12% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 4 | 8% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 2% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Unknown | 14 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
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