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Promising effects of corticosteroid treatment in combination with antifungal agents in a patient with Aspergillus meningitis.

Parisa Aziz JalaliEnsieh LotfaliKamran RezaeiAlireza FatemiFarzad AshrafiSaeed Oraee-YazdaniAlimohammad Mirdehghan
Published in: Clinical case reports (2022)
Although Aspergillus meningitis is poorly responsive to current guidelines for treatment, we describe a dramatic response of Aspergillus meningitis in a patient to treatment using a combination of corticosteroids with guideline's suggested antifungal agents. Administration of corticosteroids in patients with Aspergillus meningitis is rarely reported in previous studies.
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