Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cuadrado, L M
• Guerrero, A
• Garcia Asenjo, J A
• Martin, F
• Palau, E
• Garcia Urra, D

Titel

Cerebral mucormycosis in two cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Ist Teil von

• Archives of neurology (Chicago), 1988-01, Vol.45 (1), p.109-111

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We describe two patients with isolated cerebral mucormycosis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Their clinical course was rapid and fatal; early diagnosis and treatment with amphotericin B did not prevent a fatal outcome in both cases. Isolated cerebral mucormycosis has not (to our knowledge) been reported previously in patients with AIDS. Mucormycosis should be included in the differential diagnosis of central nervous system infections in intravenous drug abusers with AIDS. A brain biopsy is needed for the diagnosis of mucormycosis.