Cryptococcal meningitis with accompanying recurrent cerebellitis in an immunocompetent patient

Selçuk Kaya; Iftihar Köksal; Ilknur Tosun; Ahmet Sarı; Zekeriya Alioğlu

doi:10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.10.006

Cryptococcal meningitis with accompanying recurrent cerebellitis in an immunocompetent patient

Med Mycol Case Rep. 2012 Nov 6;1(1):127-9. doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.10.006. eCollection 2012.

Authors

Selçuk Kaya¹, Iftihar Köksal¹, Ilknur Tosun², Ahmet Sarı³, Zekeriya Alioğlu⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey.
² Department of Medical Microbiology, Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey.
³ Department of Radiology, Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Trabzon 61080, Turkey.

Abstract

This report describes a 46-year-old individual with normal immune status and a clinical course marked by headache and nausea-vomiting. He was diagnosed as having cryptococcal meningitis (CM) accompanying with cerebellitis. The interesting element was the observation of recurrent cerebellitis, never before reported in the literature for CM. He was successfully treated with antifungal and steroid therapy and discharged on day 330.

Keywords: Cryptococcal meningitis; Immunocompetent; Recurrent cerebellitis.