title: Lethal African trypanosomiasis in a traveler: MRI and neuropathology.
abstract: The authors report a case of human African trypanosomiasis with CNS involvement caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense in a 52-year-old woman, which relapsed after melarsoprol treatment. After a second regimen, she developed a severe toxic polyneuropathy, progressing to coma and eventually death. MRI revealed rapidly progressive multiple white matter lesions as well as damage of the central gray matter and cortex. The autopsy results confirmed the diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, The Netherlands. HBraakman@alysis.nl
authors.forename: Hilde M H
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Braakman
authors.forename: Fred J J M
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: van de Molengraft
authors.forename: Wim W A
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Hubert
authors.forename: Dolf H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Boerman
mesh_terms: D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D013636:Tanzania; D014195:Travel; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*