Toxocara canis-Associated Myelitis with Eosinophilic Pneumonia

The existence of Toxocara canis-specific antibodies has recently been reported in patients with atopic myelitis. Here, we report the case of a 35-year-old male patient admitted with a chief complaint of right lower limb hypoesthesia lasting for a month. The patient was diagnosed with eosinophilic pn...

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Autores principales: Park, Kee Hong, Kim, Young-Soo, Kim, Soo-Kyung, Choi, Nack-Cheon, Kwon, Oh-Young, Lim, ByeongHoon, Park, Ki-Jong
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4923358/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27358582
http://dx.doi.org/10.5607/en.2016.25.3.139
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author Park, Kee Hong
Kim, Young-Soo
Kim, Soo-Kyung
Choi, Nack-Cheon
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Lim, ByeongHoon
Park, Ki-Jong
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description The existence of Toxocara canis-specific antibodies has recently been reported in patients with atopic myelitis. Here, we report the case of a 35-year-old male patient admitted with a chief complaint of right lower limb hypoesthesia lasting for a month. The patient was diagnosed with eosinophilic pneumonia 3 months ago, and a spine MRI revealed the presence of myelitis in the cervicothoracic cord. After confirming the presence of hyper-IgE-emia and Toxocara canis antibodies, the patient was treated with steroids and albendazole treatment, which improved his symptoms. To our knowledge, this is the first case of Toxocara canis-associated myelitis with eosinophilic pneumonia.
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spelling pubmed-49233582016-06-29 Toxocara canis-Associated Myelitis with Eosinophilic Pneumonia Park, Kee Hong Kim, Young-Soo Kim, Soo-Kyung Choi, Nack-Cheon Kwon, Oh-Young Lim, ByeongHoon Park, Ki-Jong Exp Neurobiol Case Report The existence of Toxocara canis-specific antibodies has recently been reported in patients with atopic myelitis. Here, we report the case of a 35-year-old male patient admitted with a chief complaint of right lower limb hypoesthesia lasting for a month. The patient was diagnosed with eosinophilic pneumonia 3 months ago, and a spine MRI revealed the presence of myelitis in the cervicothoracic cord. After confirming the presence of hyper-IgE-emia and Toxocara canis antibodies, the patient was treated with steroids and albendazole treatment, which improved his symptoms. To our knowledge, this is the first case of Toxocara canis-associated myelitis with eosinophilic pneumonia. The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science 2016-06 2016-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4923358/ /pubmed/27358582 http://dx.doi.org/10.5607/en.2016.25.3.139 Text en Copyright © Experimental Neurobiology 2016. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Toxocara canis-Associated Myelitis with Eosinophilic Pneumonia
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title_sort toxocara canis-associated myelitis with eosinophilic pneumonia
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