Two cases of schistosomiasis.
Two patients with neuroschistosomiasis are reported. In both patients diagnostic problems were encountered. The first case began with an aspecific allergic reaction of facial oedema and abnormal behaviour. The symptoms were followed by generalized convulsive seizures, dysphasia and hemiparesis. The disease characteristics, paraclinical findings and remarkable improvement on antischistosomal drug therapy strongly suggested cerebral schistosomiasis. The second case history starts with a cauda syndrome while in the end the diagnosis of transverse myelitis was confirmed.
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D000293:Adolescent; D001037:Aphasia / Q000209:etiology; D002420:Cauda Equina; D002648:Child; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009188:Myelitis, Transverse / Q000175:diagnosis; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*