Mania with cryptococcal meningitis in two AIDS patients

Johannessen, D.J.; Wilson, L.G.

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 49(5): 200-201

1988


ISSN/ISBN: 0160-6689
PMID: 3366757
Document Number: 309736
Cases are reported in 2 patients (a 32-yr-old and a 35-yr-old man) with AIDS whose first psychiatric presentation was mania and who were later found to have Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis. Therapy with amphotericin B (Fungizone, Mysteclin-F) and flucytosine (Ancobon) was successful in the first case, but the 2nd patient died of respiratory arrest, despite therapy with amphotericin B and flucytosine.

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