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Equinococose/diagnóstico , Echinococcus granulosus/isolamento & purificação , Coluna Vertebral/parasitologia , Adulto , Albendazol/uso terapêutico , Animais , Anticestoides/uso terapêutico , Dor nas Costas/parasitologia , Equinococose/tratamento farmacológico , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Coluna Vertebral/diagnóstico por imagem , Coluna Vertebral/cirurgiaAssuntos
Esquistossomose , Adulto , África/etnologia , Animais , Anti-Helmínticos/administração & dosagem , Anti-Helmínticos/uso terapêutico , Dor nas Costas/parasitologia , Cefaleia/parasitologia , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Noruega , Schistosoma/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Schistosoma/isolamento & purificação , Esquistossomose/diagnóstico , Esquistossomose/diagnóstico por imagem , Esquistossomose/tratamento farmacológico , Vértebras Torácicas/diagnóstico por imagem , Vértebras Torácicas/parasitologiaRESUMO
Spinal intramedullary cysticercosis is an uncommon clinical condition that may mimic an intramedullary tumour and can lead to irreversible neurological deficits if untreated. We report a case of a 35-year-old man who clinically presented as Brown-Sequard syndrome, having thoracic cord cysticercosis at T11 level. MRI of the spine revealed a well-defined round intramedullary inflammatory lesion with scolex and perilesional oedema at D11 level.
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Síndrome de Brown-Séquard/parasitologia , Neurocisticercose/complicações , Doenças da Medula Espinal/complicações , Adulto , Albendazol/uso terapêutico , Animais , Anticestoides/uso terapêutico , Dor nas Costas/parasitologia , Síndrome de Brown-Séquard/diagnóstico , Quimioterapia Combinada , Glucocorticoides/uso terapêutico , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Neurocisticercose/diagnóstico , Prednisolona/uso terapêutico , Doenças da Medula Espinal/diagnóstico , Taenia solium , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
Primary spinal hydatid disease is rare. Spinal hydatid disease should be considered in the differential diagnosis of spinal cord compression syndrome in endemic countries and evaluated with imaging and serology. Our case was a 34- year-old man. The patient presented with progressive back pain for 8 months and lower extremity weakness for 3 months. Neurological examination was suggestive of upper motor neuron type of paraperesis. Magnetic resonance images of the thoracal region showed an intradural multicystic lesion. The mass was explored with T 10-11 laminectomy. It had displaced the cord to the right side. The fluid was clear and did not contain pus. The lesion was easily dissected from the cord and was resected totally. The pathological diagnosis was hydatid disease.
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Equinococose/complicações , Compressão da Medula Espinal/parasitologia , Doenças da Coluna Vertebral/parasitologia , Adulto , Dor nas Costas/parasitologia , Dor nas Costas/patologia , Equinococose/patologia , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Compressão da Medula Espinal/patologia , Doenças da Coluna Vertebral/patologiaAssuntos
Equinococose/patologia , Echinococcus granulosus/isolamento & purificação , Vértebras Lombares/patologia , Doenças da Coluna Vertebral/patologia , Vértebras Torácicas/patologia , Animais , Dor nas Costas/parasitologia , Dor nas Costas/patologia , Descompressão Cirúrgica , Equinococose/parasitologia , Equinococose/cirurgia , Humanos , Laminectomia , Vértebras Lombares/parasitologia , Vértebras Lombares/cirurgia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Doenças da Coluna Vertebral/parasitologia , Doenças da Coluna Vertebral/cirurgia , Fusão Vertebral , Vértebras Torácicas/parasitologia , Vértebras Torácicas/cirurgia , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
Blackwater fever is characterized by severe intravascular hemolysis with renal failure caused by recurrent use of quinine for prophylaxis. Once described in European patients, sporadic cases have been reported more and more often in autochthonous Africans and Asians. Newer antimalarials including aminoalchohol mefloquine, and halofantrine have also been implicated in Blackwater fever. In this report we describe two cases of blackwater fever involving patients with sickle cell anemia (HbSS). Symptoms including fever, acute hemolytic anemia, emesis, back pain, and hemoglobinuria were characteristic of blackwater fever. Both patients died. Although the underlying mechanism of blackwater fever remains unclear, a likely explanation is an immunoallergic reaction to quinine. Association with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency has often been reported. Our cases suggest that blackwater fever may also be correlated with hemoglobinopathy such as HbSS.
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Anemia Falciforme/complicações , Febre Hemoglobinúrica/etiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Anemia Hemolítica/parasitologia , Antimaláricos/efeitos adversos , Dor nas Costas/parasitologia , Febre Hemoglobinúrica/sangue , Febre Hemoglobinúrica/diagnóstico , Febre Hemoglobinúrica/tratamento farmacológico , Evolução Fatal , Febre/parasitologia , Hemoglobinúria/parasitologia , Humanos , Masculino , Quinina/efeitos adversos , Vômito/parasitologiaRESUMO
Spinal hydatid disease is a rare entity that frequently yields to severe, acute-onset neurological deficits. Although the gold standard treatment is total surgical removal of the cysts without inducing any spillage, it may not be possible to perform this in patients with multiple and fragile cysts. In such cases, the neural structures should be adequately decompressed and albendazole should be administered promptly. The authors describe the case of a 13-year-old girl who was admitted with a history of back pain and acute-onset lower-extremity weakness. Magnetic resonance imaging scans demonstrated severe spinal cord compression caused by multiple cysts involving T-4 and the mediastinum. The patient underwent surgery, and the cysts were removed, except for one cyst that was hardly exposed. Following histopathological confirmation of spinal hydatid disease, she was treated with albendazole for 1 year. One year postoperatively, the residual cyst had gradually shrunk and had almost disappeared. Although a single case is not sufficiently promising, we believe that administration of albendazole is efficient to prevent recurrences in cases in which it is not possible to obtain total removal of the cysts without inducing spillage.