Rapid Cerebral Edema and Herniation in a 65-Year-Old Man With Balamuthia Mandrillaris

This case describes a 65-year-old man with hepatocellular carcinoma as well as other medical comorbidities who developed rapidly progressive cerebral edema, nonconvulsive status epilepticus, and ultimately died. Postmortem examination revealed massive cerebral edema, widespread parenchymal necrosis,...

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Autores principales: Zwillman, Michael, Nguyen, Anh T, Organek, Natalie, Kobiessi, Zoulficar A, Kodali, Sudha, Immanuel, Kevin E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34007751
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14498
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author Zwillman, Michael
Nguyen, Anh T
Organek, Natalie
Kobiessi, Zoulficar A
Kodali, Sudha
Immanuel, Kevin E
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Nguyen, Anh T
Organek, Natalie
Kobiessi, Zoulficar A
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description This case describes a 65-year-old man with hepatocellular carcinoma as well as other medical comorbidities who developed rapidly progressive cerebral edema, nonconvulsive status epilepticus, and ultimately died. Postmortem examination revealed massive cerebral edema, widespread parenchymal necrosis, herniation, hemorrhage, and cerebral amebiasis. The causative agent was identified by the Center for Disease Control as Balamuthia mandrillaris.
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spelling pubmed-81211212021-05-17 Rapid Cerebral Edema and Herniation in a 65-Year-Old Man With Balamuthia Mandrillaris Zwillman, Michael Nguyen, Anh T Organek, Natalie Kobiessi, Zoulficar A Kodali, Sudha Immanuel, Kevin E Cureus Neurology This case describes a 65-year-old man with hepatocellular carcinoma as well as other medical comorbidities who developed rapidly progressive cerebral edema, nonconvulsive status epilepticus, and ultimately died. Postmortem examination revealed massive cerebral edema, widespread parenchymal necrosis, herniation, hemorrhage, and cerebral amebiasis. The causative agent was identified by the Center for Disease Control as Balamuthia mandrillaris. Cureus 2021-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8121121/ /pubmed/34007751 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14498 Text en Copyright © 2021, Zwillman et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Neurology
Zwillman, Michael
Nguyen, Anh T
Organek, Natalie
Kobiessi, Zoulficar A
Kodali, Sudha
Immanuel, Kevin E
Rapid Cerebral Edema and Herniation in a 65-Year-Old Man With Balamuthia Mandrillaris
title Rapid Cerebral Edema and Herniation in a 65-Year-Old Man With Balamuthia Mandrillaris
title_full Rapid Cerebral Edema and Herniation in a 65-Year-Old Man With Balamuthia Mandrillaris
title_fullStr Rapid Cerebral Edema and Herniation in a 65-Year-Old Man With Balamuthia Mandrillaris
title_full_unstemmed Rapid Cerebral Edema and Herniation in a 65-Year-Old Man With Balamuthia Mandrillaris
title_short Rapid Cerebral Edema and Herniation in a 65-Year-Old Man With Balamuthia Mandrillaris
title_sort rapid cerebral edema and herniation in a 65-year-old man with balamuthia mandrillaris
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121121/
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