Successful treatment of cerebral toxoplasmosis with cotrimoxazole
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Treating AIDS-associated cerebral toxoplasmosis - pyrimethamine plus sulfadiazine compared with cotrimoxazole, and outcome with adjunctive glucocorticoids.
We conducted a retrospective study of AIDS-associated cerebral toxoplasmosis. Eighteen patients received pyrimethamine plus sulfadiazine and 25 co-trimoxazole, with comparable baseline characteristics. There were no differences in clinical outcomes, but co-trimoxazole was better tolerated (p = 0.066). There was also a trend towards more deaths among patients who received glucocorticoids.
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0253-7184
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7184.81255