10 вынікі
Toxocariasis in children is usually an asymptomatic infection and those with clinical illness have non-specific systemic or local manifestations. We present a 24-month-old boy with bilateral lymphedema of the feet as the main clinical manifestation of toxocariasis. The child presented with limping
To investigate clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of proven ocular toxocariasis (OT) in adult patients.
Retrospective, consecutive, interventional case series.
setting: Institutional.
Consecutive OT patients with positive serum serology and positive western blot (WB) on ocular
OBJECTIVE
To determine the main clinical signs and symptoms of adult toxocariasis and the relationship between anti-Toxocara canis antibody levels, symptoms, and the other biological parameters.
METHODS
Prospective study conducted in the interval 2008 - 2011 in a series of 457 adult patients from
Aim of this case report is to present a case of a female patient with bilateral macular edema successfully treated by the systemic antibiotic.
METHODS
The authors present a case of 58 years old female with bilateral cystoid macular edema. In this patient, the central retinal thickness of the right
BACKGROUND
To describe the prevalence, clinical features, and causes of vision loss among patients with ocular toxocariasis seen at a uveitis referral center.
METHODS
A review was completed of the charts of patients with ocular toxocariasis who were examined between 1977 and 1996 at the Francis I.
Despite being one of the most common zoonotic infections worldwide, human toxocariasis has been one of the neglected tropical diseases. Although most human infections are asymptomatic, two main syndromes of human toxocariasis are classically recognized: systemic toxocariasis, which encompasses
Although myiasis or hypodermiasis is a parasitic disease that theoretically has practically been eradicated, a new case has recently been reported in Lower Normandy, in a bovine husbandry region.
METHODS
A seven-year-old-girl was hospitalized in November 1998 for an edema of variable size on the
OBJECTIVE
To determine the clinical features and distribution of uveitis in the pediatric age group at a referral eye care center in Shiraz, South Iran.
METHODS
All new cases of uveitis in patients 18-year-old or younger referred from January 2007 to December 2013 were enrolled in this study. The
Parasitic infections of the central nervous system (CNS) include two broad categories of infectious organisms: single-celled protozoa and multicellular metazoa. The protozoal infections include malaria, American trypanosomiasis, human African trypanosomiasis, toxoplasmosis, amebiasis,
Toxocariasis in man is associated with three syndromes which are visceral larva migrans, ocular larva migrans and covert toxocariasis. Although neurotoxocariasis is defined as the fourth syndrome of toxocariasis, it is usually considered as a neurological disease which is usually concomitant with