RESUMEN
Eosinophilic meningitis, also named human nervous angiostrongyliasis, results from the infestation of the Nervous System by larvae of Angyostrongylus Cantonensis realizing there a parasitic deadlock. The Authors studied 54 patients whose main complaints were severe and lasting headache, and paresthesias. A meningitic syndrome is not always encountered and a facial paralysis of the lower motor neuron type has been noted in a few patients. Study of the Cerebrospinal fluid shows pleiocytosis with a variable percentage of eosinophiles. Complete recovery is usual after a couple of weeks and the prognosis can be given as excellent despite of the fact that no specific therapy is known at the present time.
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Eosinofilia/etiología , Meningitis/etiología , Infecciones por Nematodos/complicaciones , Humanos , Meningitis/diagnóstico , Metastrongyloidea , Infecciones por Nematodos/terapia , Polinesia , PronósticoAsunto(s)
Depresión/epidemiología , Depresión/etiología , Femenino , Francia/etnología , Humanos , Masculino , PolinesiaRESUMEN
The authors report a case of severe two phases fish poisoning, treated at hospital and ruled by a complex neurological picture with both central and peripheric manifestations. The detailed data, they have got about the disease, are an opportunity to discuss the various pathogenic procedures of human ciguatera.