Accelerated Course of Alveolar Echinococcosis After Treatment With Steroids in a Patient With Autoimmune Encephalitis

Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a zoonotic infection caused by the fox tapeworm Echinococcus ​​​​​​multilocularis. We report the case of a patient who developed an accelerated course of AE with diffuse liver involvement after high-dose steroid treatment for autoimmune encephalitis. Immunosuppr...

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Autores principales: Diem, Stefan, Gottstein, Bruno, Beldi, Guido, Semmo, Nasser, Diem, Lara F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8596569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34820209
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18831
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author Diem, Stefan
Gottstein, Bruno
Beldi, Guido
Semmo, Nasser
Diem, Lara F
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Beldi, Guido
Semmo, Nasser
Diem, Lara F
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description Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a zoonotic infection caused by the fox tapeworm Echinococcus ​​​​​​multilocularis. We report the case of a patient who developed an accelerated course of AE with diffuse liver involvement after high-dose steroid treatment for autoimmune encephalitis. Immunosuppressive therapies present us with new challenges regarding the management of AE. With this article, we would like to draw attention to the importance of a screening program for AE before planned immunosuppressive therapy.
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spelling pubmed-85965692021-11-23 Accelerated Course of Alveolar Echinococcosis After Treatment With Steroids in a Patient With Autoimmune Encephalitis Diem, Stefan Gottstein, Bruno Beldi, Guido Semmo, Nasser Diem, Lara F Cureus Internal Medicine Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a zoonotic infection caused by the fox tapeworm Echinococcus ​​​​​​multilocularis. We report the case of a patient who developed an accelerated course of AE with diffuse liver involvement after high-dose steroid treatment for autoimmune encephalitis. Immunosuppressive therapies present us with new challenges regarding the management of AE. With this article, we would like to draw attention to the importance of a screening program for AE before planned immunosuppressive therapy. Cureus 2021-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8596569/ /pubmed/34820209 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18831 Text en Copyright © 2021, Diem 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.
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Diem, Stefan
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Beldi, Guido
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Accelerated Course of Alveolar Echinococcosis After Treatment With Steroids in a Patient With Autoimmune Encephalitis
title Accelerated Course of Alveolar Echinococcosis After Treatment With Steroids in a Patient With Autoimmune Encephalitis
title_full Accelerated Course of Alveolar Echinococcosis After Treatment With Steroids in a Patient With Autoimmune Encephalitis
title_fullStr Accelerated Course of Alveolar Echinococcosis After Treatment With Steroids in a Patient With Autoimmune Encephalitis
title_full_unstemmed Accelerated Course of Alveolar Echinococcosis After Treatment With Steroids in a Patient With Autoimmune Encephalitis
title_short Accelerated Course of Alveolar Echinococcosis After Treatment With Steroids in a Patient With Autoimmune Encephalitis
title_sort accelerated course of alveolar echinococcosis after treatment with steroids in a patient with autoimmune encephalitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8596569/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18831
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