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Survival in untreated cryptococcal meningitis

Medical Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, the Departments of Medicine (Dr. Campbell) and Neurology (Dr. Currier), University of Mississippi School of Medicine, and the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center (Dr. Busey), Jackson, MS.

Fourteen reported patients with more than a 2-year survival of untreated cryptococcal meningitis were analyzed, and an untreated patient with a 13-year survival was added. Comments are made on the only known "untreated" cure of this disorder.

The tendency to occasional remission but not cure of the disease without treatment is noted, and it is pointed out that the rare long survival without treatment usually occurs in young and otherwise healthy individuals.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Campbell, 2660 Ridgewood Road, Jackson, MS 39216.

Accepted for publication December 19, 1980

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