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Bilateral blindness after starting highly active antiretroviral treatment in a patient with HIV infection and cryptococcal meningitis.

C De Schacht1, R M E Smets, S Callens, R Colebunders.   

Abstract

A 26-year-old HIV-seropositive Caucasian man with cryptococcal meningitis developed permanent bilateral blindness shortly after starting highly active antiretroviral treatment. The blindness may have been a consequence of an immune reactivation inflammatory syndrome caused by this treatment.

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Year:  2005        PMID： 15981698     DOI： 10.1179/acb.2005.003

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Acta Clin Belg        ISSN： 1784-3286            Impact factor:   1.264


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1.  Rapid Reversal of Complete Binocular Blindness With High-Dose Corticosteroids and Lumbar Drain in a Solid Organ Transplant Recipient With Cryptococcal Meningitis and Immune Reconstitution Syndrome: First Case Study and Literature Review.

Authors:  Zoe Weiss; Nihaal Mehta; Su Nandar Aung; Michael Migliori; Dimitrios Farmakiotis
Journal:  Open Forum Infect Dis       Date:  2018-01-08       Impact factor: 3.835

2.  Visual loss in HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis: A case series and review of the mechanisms involved.

Authors:  Anand Moodley; William Rae; Ahmed Bhigjee
Journal:  South Afr J HIV Med       Date:  2015-10-16       Impact factor: 2.744

3.  Early clinical and subclinical visual evoked potential and Humphrey's visual field defects in cryptococcal meningitis.

Authors:  Anand Moodley; William Rae; Ahmed Bhigjee; Cathy Connolly; Natasha Devparsad; Andrew Michowicz; Thomas Harrison; Angela Loyse
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2012-12-21       Impact factor: 3.240
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