Meningoencefalitis amebiana primaria: comunicacion de dos nuevos casos Venezolanos

AUTOR(ES)

Petit, Fátima, Vilchez, Varinka, Torres, Gustavo, Molina, Omaira, Dorfman, Saúl, Mora, Eduardo, Cardozo, José

FONTE

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006-12

RESUMO

Primary amebic menigoencephalitis (PAM) is rare. Two cases of PAM in Venezuelan patients are described. Case 1, a 10 year-old male with headache, fever, vomiting. The patient swam in a water reservoir before the onset of his disease. He died during his third hospital day. Case 2, a 23 year-old male with a history of headache, fever, vomiting, drowsiness, and behavioral disturbances. The patient died on his second hospital day. The diagnosis in both cases was PAM due to Naegleria fowleri. Central nervous system infection by free-living amebas should be considered in meningoencephalitides with bacterial-free cerebro-spinal fluid.

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