A case report: 1-year follow-up of cerebral sparganosis mansoni with a stroke-like onset
| العنوان: | A case report: 1-year follow-up of cerebral sparganosis mansoni with a stroke-like onset |
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| المؤلفون: | Min Wang, Hou Zhen Tuo, Dan Xie, Xu Chen |
| المصدر: | BMC Neurology BMC Neurology, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-5 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | BioMed Central, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Pediatrics, China, Neurology, Sparganosis, Case Report, lcsh:RC346-429, Praziquantel, 03 medical and health sciences, Epilepsy, 0302 clinical medicine, Paroxysmal attack, parasitic diseases, medicine, Animals, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Spirometra, Stroke, lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, Anthelmintics, biology, business.industry, General Medicine, Sparganosis mansoni, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Parasitic diseases, Neurology (clinical), Neurosurgery, Differential diagnosis, business, Intracranial infection, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, MRI, Follow-Up Studies |
| الوصف: | Background Sparganosis mansoni is a parasitic disease caused by infection with the larvae of Spirometra spp. tapeworms. Its clinical manifestations and severity depend on the migration and the location of the parasites. The proportion of cerebral sparganosis in all Spirometra mansoni infections is 13.5% in Thailand and 12.4% in China. In the clinical setting, cerebral sparganosis is often misdiagnosed due to atypical characteristics, irregular intracranial location, and atypical epidemiology. Case presentation The patient in the case study suffered from an acute paroxysmal attack of lateral numbness, accompanied with focal epilepsy. He was admitted to the neurology department as a stroke patient but was later diagnosed with cerebral sparganosis mansoni following lab and radiology investigations. He was fully recovered and free of Spirometra mansoni one year after initial consultation following several courses of oral praziquantel. The current report focuses on the diagnosis, treatment and follow up of this patient. Conclusions A case of cerebral sparganosis mansoni with a stroke-like onsetsuggests that in the clinical diagnosis, neurologists should pay attention to brain lesions and look out for the possibility of neuroparasitic infections when dealing with patients with stroke-like onset accompanied by epilepsy. Detections of relevant antibodies in blood and cerebrospinal fluid may be necessary. The combination of the epidemiological history, clinical manifestations, detection of parasite antibody, head radiology, pathological biopsy, and identification of parasites will help us in diagnosis and differential diagnosis. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1471-2377 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::bff1ec6798ee36bf8d2a22c3e85eaf5f http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6540360 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....bff1ec6798ee36bf8d2a22c3e85eaf5f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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