Disseminated Cryptococcosis with Adrenal and Lung Involvement in an Immunocompetent Patient
Correspondence Address :
Dr. Rita Sood,
Professor, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi -110029, India.
E-mail: profritasood@gmail.com
Disseminated cryptococcosis usually occurs in immunocompromised patients. Occasionally, it affects immunocompetent persons and mimics tuberculosis in clinical presentation and radiological findings. Usually, it affects lungs and central nervous system. Rarely, it may affect adrenal glands. We present a case of 65-year-old gentleman with prolonged pyrexia. Computed Tomography (CT) scan of chest and abdomen showed miliary pattern in the chest with bilateral adrenal masses. On the basis of clinical and radiological findings, the case was initially diagnosed as disseminated tuberculosis and anti tubercular treatment was started. Subsequently, on histopathological examination, the diagnosis was confirmed as disseminated cryptococcosis. Even in a country with high prevalence of tuberculosis, other causes of miliary mottling should be considered and histopathological examination should be sought.
Adrenal cryptococcosis, Adrenal Tuberculosis, Disseminated tuberculosis, Empirical ATT, Immunocompetent
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2015/11499.5752
Date of Submission: Sep 29, 2014
Date of Peer Review: Dec 14, 2014
Date of Acceptance: Feb 05, 2015
Date of Publishing: Apr 01, 2015
Financial OR OTHER COMPETING INTERESTS: None.
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