Psychosis Due to Disseminated Cryptococcal Infection and Delirium in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Psychosomatics. 2018 Jul-Aug;59(4):394-399. doi: 10.1016/j.psym.2017.06.003. Epub 2017 Jun 9.

Authors

Jungjin Kim¹, Georgina Hartzell², Neguine Rezaii², Lauren Gensler², Wendy Baer², Raymond Young², Ann C Schwartz²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.

PMID: 28711217
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2017.06.003

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Amphotericin B / therapeutic use
Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use
Brain / microbiology
Cryptococcosis / complications*
Cryptococcosis / diagnosis
Cryptococcosis / drug therapy
Delirium / etiology*
Delirium / microbiology
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Flucytosine / therapeutic use
Humans
Immunocompetence
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Middle Aged
Psychotic Disorders / etiology*
Psychotic Disorders / microbiology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

Antifungal Agents
Amphotericin B
Flucytosine