In 2024, the European Confederation of Medical Mycology, the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology, and the American Society for Microbiology jointly published the first global clinical guideline for cryptococcosis in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, which systematically established differentiated diagnostic and treatment strategies tailored to distinct host types and infection sites. This article provides an in-depth interpretation of the guideline, focusing on critical clinical aspects including diagnosis and screening of cryptococcal infection, management of central nervous system (CNS) infections, pulmonary infections, non-CNS/non-pulmonary infections, intervention strategies for complications such as immune reconstitution syndrome, and individualized treatment recommendations for special populations (pregnant women and children). The article aims to deliver standardized and actionable clinical guidance for healthcare providers, facilitating optimized comprehensive management of cryptococcosis across multi-tier healthcare institutions.
Co-infection with severe influenza and bacterial is well known, but in recent years, more and more studies report that aspergillus have been identified as important pathogens, secondary only to bacteria in severe influenza. Influenza-associated aspergillus (IAA) brings a high death rate and heavy burden to our country. Therefore, early diagnosis and effective treatment are needed. In order to better understand IAA, this review summarizes the available literature on the association of IAA, including epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment.
This paper compares emergency medical rescue experience of West China Hospital of Sichuan University in the latest three earthquakes occurred in western Sichuan, and mainly introduces the experience in organization and coordination, rescue speed, treatment of the injured, and rescue characteristics in Jiuzhaigou earthquake, which can provide reference for future earthquake emergency medical rescue.
Objective
To discuss the clinical value of whole spine magnetic resonance imaging (WSMRI) in practice of neurosurgical spinal surgery.
Method
A total of 70 cases examined using WSMRI between January 2015 and December 2016 were collected and analyzed retrospectively.
Results
All patients got clear images of WSMRI. Eighteen cases got important information, including spinal variation (1 case), multiple lesions (3 cases), combined lesions (6 cases) and large range multi-segmental lesions (8 cases), which were missed by single-segment MRI .
Conclusions
WSMRI can show all the spine, spinal cord and surrounding tissue in one image at one time. It has high clinical value because of its accurate positioning, comprehensiveness, time saving, and low rate of misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis.
