Cryptococcal Meningitis in a Teenage Boy with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Abstract

There are approximately 1 million new cases of cryptococcal meningitis each year and most cases occur among people with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. There have been rare case reports worldwide of pediatric patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) diagnosed with the cryptococcal infection. We present a teenage boy with SLE and severe lymphopenia who developed cryptococcal meningitis to demonstrate the importance of considering this diagnosis in the absence of characteristic neurological signs and symptoms.

Keywords

systemic lupus erythematosus - cryptococcal meningitis - immunosuppression

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