PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | meningoencephalitis |
| Phenotype | C0151740|increased intracranial pressure |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 25276446 | We describe a 39-year-old immunocompetent female that presented with neurologic deficits and increased intracranial pressure (icp) due to cryptococcal meningoencephalitis that had a complicated course with drug induced hepatitis and persistently increased icp that ultimately required shunt placement and presented again with relapse of cryptococcal meningoencephalitis after completion of antifungal treatment. |
| PubMedID- 25656669 | In one study, 40% of deaths during weeks 3–10 following an episode of cryptococcal meningoencephalitis were attributed to increased intracranial pressure (9). |
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