Toxocariasis Presenting as Encephalomyelitis

We describe a farmer who presented with a clinical picture of a transverse thoracic myelitis. MRI showed inflammatory lesions in brain and thoracic spinal cord. Toxocariasis was suspected because of eosinophilia in blood and cerebrospinal fluid, and this diagnosis was confirmed immunologically. He w...

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Autores principales: Helsen, Gregory, Vandecasteele, Stefaan J., Vanopdenbosch, Ludo J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21629809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/503913
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author Helsen, Gregory
Vandecasteele, Stefaan J.
Vanopdenbosch, Ludo J.
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Vanopdenbosch, Ludo J.
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description We describe a farmer who presented with a clinical picture of a transverse thoracic myelitis. MRI showed inflammatory lesions in brain and thoracic spinal cord. Toxocariasis was suspected because of eosinophilia in blood and cerebrospinal fluid, and this diagnosis was confirmed immunologically. He was successfully treated with antihelminthics in combination with corticosteroids. Neurotoxocariasis is rare and diagnosis can be difficult because of the different and atypical clinical manifestations. It should be considered in every case of central neurological syndrome associated with eosinophilia.
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spelling pubmed-30992162011-05-31 Toxocariasis Presenting as Encephalomyelitis Helsen, Gregory Vandecasteele, Stefaan J. Vanopdenbosch, Ludo J. Case Rep Med Case Report We describe a farmer who presented with a clinical picture of a transverse thoracic myelitis. MRI showed inflammatory lesions in brain and thoracic spinal cord. Toxocariasis was suspected because of eosinophilia in blood and cerebrospinal fluid, and this diagnosis was confirmed immunologically. He was successfully treated with antihelminthics in combination with corticosteroids. Neurotoxocariasis is rare and diagnosis can be difficult because of the different and atypical clinical manifestations. It should be considered in every case of central neurological syndrome associated with eosinophilia. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3099216/ /pubmed/21629809 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/503913 Text en Copyright © 2011 Gregory Helsen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Helsen, Gregory
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Toxocariasis Presenting as Encephalomyelitis
title Toxocariasis Presenting as Encephalomyelitis
title_full Toxocariasis Presenting as Encephalomyelitis
title_fullStr Toxocariasis Presenting as Encephalomyelitis
title_full_unstemmed Toxocariasis Presenting as Encephalomyelitis
title_short Toxocariasis Presenting as Encephalomyelitis
title_sort toxocariasis presenting as encephalomyelitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099216/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/503913
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