942: Lumbar Drain for Cryptococcal Meningitis: A Better Way Forward?

Doing Better for Children: The Way Forward

This chapter offers a range of policy recommendations for improving child well-being: invest early in children's lives; concentrate on improving the lot of vulnerable children; design interventions for children that reinforce positive development across their life cycle and across a range of well-being outcomes; create clear, achievable targets for child well-being outcomes and regularly collec...

Not NICE: a better way forward?

Although no politician will commit career suicide by admitting it, rationing of healthcare is inevitable, whatever the healthcare system, recession or no recession. Medicines, particularly biologicals, modern surgery and intensive care are pushing back the boundaries of what can be done to salvage seemingly hopeless situations, to give but three examples. The UK will never be able to pay for al...

Cryptococcal Meningitis

Virulence probably plays a relatively small role in the outcome of this infection: the crucial factor is the immune status of the host. The most serious infections usually develop, in fact, in patients with defective cell-mediated immunity, for example those with AIDS, organ transplantation, reticuloendothelial malignancy, corticosteroid treatment and sarcoidosis, but not in subjects with neutr...

Cryptococcal meningitis

© 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd the second most common cause of death in HIV infection after tuberculosis (French et al. 2002). Moreover, despite the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), it continues to pose diffi cult management questions in the industrialized world. Questions remain for physicians regarding the optimal combination of antifungal agents, duration of tre...

A case of cryptococcal meningitis.