Spinal arachnoiditis due to aspergillus meningitis in a previously healthy patie

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Spinal arachnoiditis due to aspergillus meningitis in a previously

healthy patient.

Van de Wyngaert FA, Sindic CJ, Rousseau JJ, Fernandes Xavier FG,

Brucher JM, Laterre EC.

A 30-year-old, previously healthy, non-addicted man presented with a

chronic spinal meningitis complicated by arachnoiditis and spinal

cord compression. Biopsy showed a chronic granulomatous

leptomeningitis, in which some cells contained branching septate

organisms that were immunostained with an antiserum to Aspergillus

fumigatus. Precipitins to A. fumigatus were detected in

cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), but not in blood, and aspergillus

infection was apparently restricted to the leptomeninges. Clinically

successful treatment led to the disappearance of CSF precipitins and

oligoclonal bands.

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PMID: 3512781 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]