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      <PublisherName>The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Acta Medica Okayama</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>0918-2918</Issn>
      <Volume>62</Volume>
      <Issue>16</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="ppublish">
        <Year>2023</Year>
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    <ArticleTitle>Cryptococcal Meningitis Developing in a Patient with Neurosarcoidosis</ArticleTitle>
    <FirstPage LZero="delete">2433</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>2435</LastPage>
    <Language>EN</Language>
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        <FirstName EmptyYN="N">Shinnosuke</FirstName>
        <LastName>Fukushima</LastName>
        <Affiliation>Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences</Affiliation>
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      <Author>
        <FirstName EmptyYN="N">Hideharu</FirstName>
        <LastName>Hagiya</LastName>
        <Affiliation>Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences</Affiliation>
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      <Author>
        <FirstName EmptyYN="N">Yukichika</FirstName>
        <LastName>Yamamoto</LastName>
        <Affiliation>Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences</Affiliation>
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      <Author>
        <FirstName EmptyYN="N">Kohei</FirstName>
        <LastName>Oguni</LastName>
        <Affiliation>Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences</Affiliation>
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      <Author>
        <FirstName EmptyYN="N">Kou</FirstName>
        <LastName>Hasegawa</LastName>
        <Affiliation>Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences</Affiliation>
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      <Author>
        <FirstName EmptyYN="N">Fumio</FirstName>
        <LastName>Otsuka</LastName>
        <Affiliation>Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences</Affiliation>
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    <Abstract>Cryptococcal meningitis is a critical disease that occasionally involves immunosuppressed patients. We herein report a 79-year-old Japanese man who received low-dose prednisolone therapy for neurosarcoidosis and panhypopituitarism. He presented a 10-day history of a fever and altered mental status. The FilmArray &amp; REG; Meningitis/Encephalitis Panel and serum cryptococcal antigen tests were both negative, but the cerebrospinal fluid sample became positive for Cryptococcus neoformans after seven-day incubation. After the diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis, we successfully treated the patient with a recommended treatment regimen. When an immunocompromised patient presents with a subacute fever accompanying any central nervous symptoms, cryptococcal meningitis should be screened for.</Abstract>
    <CoiStatement>No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.</CoiStatement>
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