Ventriculoperitoneal shunt is associated with increased cerebrospinal fluid protein level in HIV-infected cryptococcal meningitis patients

Background The impact of ventriculoperitoneal shunt on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biochemical profiles in HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis (HCM) patients remains unclear. Methods Twenty-nine HCM patients who underwent ventriculoperitoneal shunt (the VPS group) and 57 HCM patients who did not un...

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Published in:	BMC infectious diseases Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 286 - 9
Main Authors:	Tao, Ran, Xu, Lijun, Guo, Yongzheng, Xu, Xiaoke, Zheng, Jiesheng, Zhu, Biao
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 26.03.2022 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Blood tests Body mass index Cerebrospinal fluid Complications and side effects Confidence intervals Cryptococcal meningitis Diagnostic tests Ethics Fever Glucose Headaches Health aspects HIV HIV infection HIV Infections - complications Hospitals Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Immune reconstitution Infectious Diseases Inflammation Internal Medicine Intracranial pressure Laboratories Measurement Medical equipment Medical imaging Medical Microbiology Medical prognosis Medicine Medicine & Public Health Meningitis Meningitis, Cryptococcal - complications Mortality Multivariate analysis Neuroimaging Parasitology Patient outcomes Patients Physicians Physiological apparatus Physiological aspects Proteins Radiology Regression analysis Retrospective Studies Risk analysis Risk factors Statistical analysis Survival Tropical Medicine Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Meningeal - complications Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Vomiting China United States > US India Cryptococcal meningitis Human immunodeficiency virus Cerebrospinal fluid Ventriculoperitoneal shunt Survival
ISSN:	1471-2334, 1471-2334
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