A Young Patient With Lupus Nephritis and Cryptococcemia Lacking Central Nervous System Involvement

Abstract

There has been a recent increase in the prevalence of cryptococcal infections worldwide due to increased prevalence of immunosuppressed individuals secondary to AIDS, autoimmune disease, or neoplastic disease. Cryptococcus neoformans infection typically presents as a meningoencephalitis; however, there is low incidence of cryptococcemia in the absence of central nervous system and other organ involvement. Here we present a case of a 26-year-old female patient with lupus nephritis on immunosuppressants found to have asymptomatic cryptococcemia in the absence of meningoencephalitis and other organ involvement.