Treatment of HIV-related inflammatory cerebral cryptococcoma with adalimumab.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Cryptococcomas have been described in AIDS patients in the setting of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. We report the first case of human immunodeficiency virus-related inflammatory cerebral cryptococcoma to be treated with a recombinant human monoclonal tumor necrosis factor antagonist.
Medical subject headings
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- HIV Infections
- Meningitis, Cryptococcal
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha