Cerebral vasculitis associated with Schistosoma mansoni infection

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Camuset, Guillaume ^a   Wolff, Valérie ^b   Marescaux, Christian ^b   Abou Bacar, Ahmed ^c   Candolfi, Ermanno ^c   Lefebvre, Nicolas ^b   Christmann, Daniel ^b   Hansmann, Yves ^b  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire La Réunion   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral vasculitis; Corticosteroid; Praziquantel; Schistosoma mansoni; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPLEGIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SEROLOGY; STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BURKINA FASO; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; PRAZIQUANTEL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; STROKE; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84866179200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-220     Document Type: Article

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