Clinical imaging diagnosis of pulmonary cryptococcosis with different therapeutic responses

Abstract We aimed to differentiate and evaluate the clinical imaging features of pulmonary cryptococcosis with different therapeutic responses. The clinical imaging data of 70 patients with PC (complete response PC 37 cases and incomplete response PC 33 cases) were collected and compared to determine the independent risk factors for different therapeutic responses, and their diagnostic performances were verified by receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. Compared with complete response PC, incomplete response PC was more common with immunosuppression (10.8% vs. 45.5%, P = 0.001), intermediate progress (8.1% vs. 39.4%, P = 0.002), bilateral distribution (21.6% vs. 78.8%, P