Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis and pneumonia in a HIV positive patient: A case report

Cryptococcus is a serious opportunistic infection among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive people.Meningoencephalitis is the most common manifestation of cryptococcal infection, while pulmonary cryptococcosis is often neglected due to nonspecific clinical and radiological presentation leading to a delay in diagnosis and disseminated disease.Here, we reported a 67-year-old man with newly diagnosed HIV who presented with concurrent cryptococcal meningoencephalitis and pulmonary cryptococcosis that admitted with the complaint of dyspnea and productive cough for 1.5 months, worsening shortness of breath, fever and weight loss since 15 days prior to admission.He also had severe oral candidiasis.