title: [Eosinophilic meningitis (author's transl)].
abstract: Eosinophilic meningitis, also named human nervous angiostrongyliasis, results from the infestation of the Nervous System by larvae of Angyostrongylus Cantonensis realizing there a parasitic deadlock. The Authors studied 54 patients whose main complaints were severe and lasting headache, and paresthesias. A meningitic syndrome is not always encountered and a facial paralysis of the lower motor neuron type has been noted in a few patients. Study of the Cerebrospinal fluid shows pleiocytosis with a variable percentage of eosinophiles. Complete recovery is usual after a couple of weeks and the prognosis can be given as excellent despite of the fact that no specific therapy is known at the present time.
mesh_terms: D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008581:Meningitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008681:Metastrongyloidea; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D011114:Polynesia; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: La méningite  éosinophiles.