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Do you treat patients with HIV-AIDS and positive cryptococcal antigenemia but negative CSF cryptococcal antigen with standard meningitis treatment given the potential for the postzone effect?

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Infectious Disease · VA Connecticut Healthcare System
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Hello,

What was his CD4 and HIV VL results? What were the LP results exactly: what were the cell count, protein, and glucose levels? Did he have symptoms consistent with meningitis, and what did the head CT show? These patients can sometimes have cryptococcal pneumonia and not meningitis, by the way...

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