Cryptococcal Meningitis and Pulmonary Cryptococcosis in a Non-hiv Infected Patient

Correspondence: Dr Amit Agrawal Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, Nityananda Nagar, Mangalore-575108, Karnataka,India. E-mail: [email protected] INTRODUCTION Cryptococcosis has dramatically increased in frequency as a result of the pandemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and an enlarging population of other immunocompromised individuals (1,2). Pulmonary cryptococcosis associated with cryptococcal meningitis in non-HIV infected patients is an uncommon finding (3,4). Amphotericin B, fluconazole, and amphotericin B in combination with flucytosine have been used in the treatment of cryptococcal meningitis with and without coexisting HIV infection with significant improvements in the management of cryptococcal meningitis (1). In present case report, the patient was on long term oral steroids for polymyositis than she developed pulmonary cryptococcosis and cryptococcal meningitis that was treated successfully.