Fungal meningitis differential diagnosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Rim Halaby; Prince Tano Djan, BSc, MBChB [2]
Overview
The differential diagnosis of fungal meningitis includes a range of medical conditions that can be broadly classified into infectious and non infectious. The cerebrospinal fluid analysis and radiological findings help distinguishing fungal meningitis from other etiologies.
Differential Diagnosis
- Meningeal infection
- Bacterial meningeal infection
- Protozoal meningeal infection
- Helminthic meningeal infection
- Viral meningeal infection
- Parameningeal infection
- Non infectious causes
- Behçet's syndrome
- Chronic benign lymphocytic meningitis
- Chemical meningitis
- Drug hypersensitivity
- Isolated granulomatous angiitis of the nervous system
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's)
- Malignancy
- Mollaret's meningitis
- Sarcoidosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome[1]
References
- ↑ Koroshetz WJ. Chapter 382. Chronic and Recurrent Meningitis. In: Longo DL, Fauci AS, Kasper DL, Hauser SL, Jameson JL, Loscalzo J, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 18th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2012.