Importance of Follow-Up Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis in Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis
Table 3
Neuroimaging findings.
Neuroradiological findings
All patients
Survivors
Nonsurvivors
Pseudocysts (no.)
6
4
2
Dilated Virchow-Robin spaces (no.)
4
4
0
Parenchymal nodules/cryptococcomas (no.)
0
0
0
Radiological meningitis (no.)
3
2
1
Basal vasculitis (no.)
2
0
2
Cerebral infarction (no.)
3
1
2
Hydrocephalus (no.)
3
2
1
Hyperintense T2W signals (no.)
12
10
2
HIV-encephalopathy (no.)
1
1
0
Cerebral atrophy (no.)
7
5
2
Neuroradiological analysis of magnetic resonance image scans of the brain collected at baseline from twenty-one patients infected with cryptococcal meningoencephalitis.