title: Calcification of the breasts due to loiasis.
abstract: A 53-year-old HIV-positive female from Cameroon was diagnosed with loiasis in 2013 due to symptoms of polyarthritis and laboratory confirmed eosinophilia. Because of high microfilaremia primary treatment was given with two courses of albendazol and ivermectin and completed with a course of diethylcarbamazine. Therapy was successful as symptoms, eosinophilia and microfilaremia disappeared. In 2015, she had a gynecology check-up where a screening mammography showed several round and linear, meandering calcifications in both breasts, the latter are typically seen in filariasis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Hygiene, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacherstrasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lemmenmeier
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacherstrasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Rorschacherstrasse 95, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Natalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chuck
keywords: Calcification of the breast; Filariasis