Cutaneous cryptococcosis: an underlying immunosuppression? Clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnostic examinations and treatment

Marcela Nowak; Anna Putynkowska; Wioletta Barańska-Rybak; Kamila Czarnacka; Maria Dębska-Ślizień

doi:10.5114/ada.2020.94833

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Cutaneous cryptococcosis: an underlying immunosuppression? Clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnostic examinations and treatment

Marcela A. Nowak

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Anna Putynkowska

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Wioletta Barańska-Rybak

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Kamila Czarnacka

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Maria A. Dębska-Ślizień

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Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
Department of Dermatology, Copernicus Hospital, Gdansk, Poland

Adv Dermatol Allergol 2020; XXXVII (2): 154–158

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ada.2020.94833

Online publish date: 2020/05/05

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Nowak MA, Putynkowska A, Barańska-Rybak W, Czarnacka K, Dębska-Ślizień MA. Cutaneous cryptococcosis: an underlying immunosuppression? Clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnostic examinations and treatment. Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii. 2020;37(2):154-158. doi:10.5114/ada.2020.94833.

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Nowak, M. A., Putynkowska, A., Barańska-Rybak, W., Czarnacka, K.,  & Dębska-Ślizień, M. A. (2020). Cutaneous cryptococcosis: an underlying immunosuppression? Clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnostic examinations and treatment. Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii, 37(2), 154-158. https://doi.org/10.5114/ada.2020.94833

Chicago

Nowak, Marcela A, Anna Putynkowska, Wioletta Barańska-Rybak, Kamila Czarnacka,  and Maria A Dębska-Ślizień. 2020. "Cutaneous cryptococcosis: an underlying immunosuppression? Clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnostic examinations and treatment". Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii 37 (2): 154-158. doi:10.5114/ada.2020.94833.

Harvard

Nowak, M., Putynkowska, A., Barańska-Rybak, W., Czarnacka, K.,  and Dębska-Ślizień, M. (2020). Cutaneous cryptococcosis: an underlying immunosuppression? Clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnostic examinations and treatment. Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii, 37(2), pp.154-158. https://doi.org/10.5114/ada.2020.94833

MLA

Nowak, Marcela et al. "Cutaneous cryptococcosis: an underlying immunosuppression? Clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnostic examinations and treatment." Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii, vol. 37, no. 2, 2020, pp. 154-158. doi:10.5114/ada.2020.94833.

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Nowak M, Putynkowska A, Barańska-Rybak W, Czarnacka K, Dębska-Ślizień M. Cutaneous cryptococcosis: an underlying immunosuppression? Clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnostic examinations and treatment. Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii. 2020;37(2):154-158. doi:10.5114/ada.2020.94833.

Due to constantly growing population of immunocompromised patients the fungi became a widespread threat to modern medicine. HIV carriers, solid organ transplant recipients constitute most of those patients. Cryptococcosis is a frequent cause of life-threatening infections, affecting mostly immunosuppressed patients. This article presents current knowledge on cryptococcal infections, including epidemiology, clinical aspects, diagnosis and recommended treatment. In reference to our patient, who developed a disseminated and fulminant subtype of the disease, we wanted to underline the need to examine patients thoroughly. The highest aim of those measures would be to avoid lethal consequences.

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Cutaneous cryptococcosis: an underlying immunosuppression? Clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, diagnostic examinations and treatment

Marcela A. Nowak 1 , Anna Putynkowska 2 , Wioletta Barańska-Rybak 1 , Kamila Czarnacka 1 , Maria A. Dębska-Ślizień 1

cryptococcosis, Cryptococcus neoformans, kidney transplantation, dermatomycoses

Marcela A. Nowak

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Anna Putynkowska

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Wioletta Barańska-Rybak

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Kamila Czarnacka

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Maria A. Dębska-Ślizień

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