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A 36-year-old man developed blurred vision and a cough five months after traveling to an area from where a large outbreak of acute blastomycosis had been reported. Examination revealed a left choroidal lesion in the macular region, skin lesions on the right calf, and a left lung apical infiltrate. Histopathologic examination of the skin lesion demonstrated a granulomatous inflammation and broad based, budding yeast characteristic of Blastomyces dermatitidis. Amphotericin B therapy produced a rapid resolution of both choroidal and pulmonary lesions. During a six-month follow-up, there was no evidence of recurrence.
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PMID:Latent disseminated blastomycosis with choroidal involvement. 335 23

The authors studied the clinical histories of 17 patients with AIDS who were hospitalized with the diagnosis of Meningoencephalitis. Laboratory studies showed the causative agent to be Cryptococcus neoformans. All patients had fever and most had localized headache. Some patients had nausea and vomiting, nuchal rigidity and convulsions. One each had blurred vision, photophobia, periods of disorientation, ataxia, lumbar or cervical pain. Cell count, chemical analysis, India ink preparation and culture of the cerebrospinal fluid confirmed the diagnosis and the etiologic agent. Blood cultures were negative in the few patients on whom it was performed. The best results of therapy were obtained in the patients who received Amphotericin B and Fluocytosine (80%) in dosages of 0.3 to 1 mg/k/day and 150 mg/day respectively, for 21 days.
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PMID:[Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis in patients with AIDS at the Saint Thomas Hospital]. 896 38

Invasive Candida (IC) infection is the most common cause of endogenous endophthalmitis. Ocular candidiasis develops within three days and at least two weeks of fungemia. There are two characteristic ocular signs: Candida chorioretinitis defined as retina and choroid lesions without vitreal involvement, and Candida endophthalmitis defined as chorioretinitis with extension into the vitreous with characteristic fluffy balls. The most common initial visual symptoms are blurred vision and floaters. Amphotericin B, fluconazole and voriconazole are effective in the treatment of chorioretinitis; however, when vitreous is involved vitrectomy seems necessary. Early antifungal systemic treatment at first evidence of infection in patients at risk of IC, appears to decrease dramatically the incidence of endogenous fungal endophthalmitis, probably healing minimal chorioretinal infections. Routine ophthalmoscopic examination seems of little value in patients with positive blood culture, with early implementation of antifungal treatment, without symptoms of ocular infection and without impairment of the level of consciousness during the episode. However, periodic ophthalmoscopic examination should be performed in children with candidemia and critically ill patients with documented deep Candida infection.
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PMID:[Ophtalmoscopic examination in critically ill non-neutropenic patients: Candida endophtalmitis]. 1649 24

Aspergillosis in the central nervous system (CNS) is a very rare disease in immune-competent patients. There was a case of a healthy man without a history of immune-compromised disease who had invasive aspergillosis with unusual radiologic findings. A 48-year-old healthy man with diabetes mellitus, presented with complaints of blurred vision that persisted for one month. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed multiple nodular enhancing lesions on the right cerebral hemisphere. The diffusion image appeared in a high-signal intensity in these areas. Cerebrospinal fluid examination did not show any infection signs. An open biopsy was done and intraoperative findings showed grayish inflammatory and necrotic tissue without a definitive mass lesion. The pathologic result was a brain abscess caused by fungal infection, morphologically aspergillus. Antifungal agents (Amphotericin B, Ambisome and Voriconazole) were used for treatment for 3 months. The visual symptoms improved. There was no recurrence or abscess pocket, but the remaining focal enhanced lesions were visible in the right temporal and occipital area at a one year follow-up MRI. This immune-competent patient showed multiple enhancing CNS aspergillosis in the cerebral hemisphere, which had a good outcome with antifungal agents.
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PMID:Cerebral aspergillosis with multiple enhancing nodules in the right cerebral hemisphere in the immune-competent patient. 2390 9