title: [EEG and treatment with Arsobal in human African trypanosomiasis].
abstract: EEG in patients suffering form HAT at the meningoencephalitis stage displays the characteristic features of the disease. Now since most of the patients are treated at an early stage, the majority of the EEG are normal or with mild abnormalities. Where abnormalities occur, they present a diminished background activity interrupted by bursts of synchronous and generalised polymorphic delta waves at 1.2 c/s. A strict correlation frequently exists between severity of clinical symptoms and the degree of EEG abnormality. These EEG abnormalities disappears very often, after the first period of the treatment by melarsoprol. EEG seems useful to follow the course of the patients treated by melarsoprol.
authors.affiliation: Faculté de Médecine, BP V 166 Abidjan, R.C.I.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giordano
authors.forename: F Y
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Boa
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kouassi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piquemal
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Akani
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yapi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sonan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001152:Arsenicals / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D008549:Melarsoprol / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014347:Trypanosoma brucei gambiense; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D001152:Arsenicals; D008549:Melarsoprol
vernacular_title: EEG et traitement par l'arsobal dans la trypanosomiase humaine africaine.