TY - JOUR AB - Reactions 1704, p198 - 2 Jun 2018 haemodialysis. The treatment for the cryptococcosis was escalated with fluconazole after each dialysis session. The lesion in the kidney had become detectable on ultrasound, that was apparently unchanged. Subsequently, she died after Cryptococcoma and fatal sepsis: case report initiation of dialysis during admission to hospital for an An adult woman [age at the time of reaction onset no clearly episode of severe sepsis [not all outcomes stated]. stated] developed cryptococcoma leading to fatal sepsis Author comment: "This case of cryptococcal disease is following treatment with azathioprine, ciclosporin, most likely due to the effects of immunosuppression." "It methylprednisolone, mycophenolate mofetil, prednisone and occurred during a period of intensified immunosuppression tacrolimus [not all dosages stated; routes and duration of by switching to a combination of tacrolimus and treatments to reactions onsets not stated]. mycophenolate mofetil. In addition a course of pulsed The 30-year-old woman was diagnosed with end stage renal steroids had been administered 2 months before the disease, which was suspected to be a complication of her diagnosis of the lesion in the kidney." previous malarial illness. She was started on haemodialysis in 2000 and later underwent a kidney transplant in 2005. Muranda TI - Immunosuppressants JF - Reactions Weekly DO - 10.1007/s40278-018-46841-4 DA - 2018-06-02 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/immunosuppressants-bGUx2Fpg2d SP - 198 EP - 198 VL - 1704 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve