ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2012
Cerebral and spinal schistosomiasis.
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- Diagnostic Challenges in Cerebral Schistosomiasis: A Case of Schistosoma japonicum Misinterpretation.The American journal of case reports · 2025Article
- First documented case of solitary cerebellar Schistosoma japonicum neuroschistosomiasis confirmed by real-time polymerase chain reaction of the lesion: illustrative case.Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons · 2025Article
- [Pathogen-induced diseases of the spinal cord and adjacent structures].Der Nervenarzt · 2024Article
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- Emerging and Re-Emerging Parasitic Infections of the Central Nervous System (CNS) in Europe.Infectious disease reports · 2023Review
- Mansonic neuroschistosomiasis in the childhood: an undiagnosed pathology?Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2023Review
- Medullary neuroschistosomiasis in adolescence: case report and literature review.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2021Review
- Case Report: Multiple Schistosomiasis Japonica Cerebral Granulomas without Gastrointestinal System Involvement: Report of Two Cases and Review of Literature.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Review
- Cerebral schistosomiasis in a patient travelling from São Tomé and Príncipe.BJR case reports · 2020Article
- Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis: A Sub-Saharan Conundrum.Case reports in neurological medicine · 2020Article
- Acute paraplegia due to schistosomiasis: an uncommon cause in developed countries.Journal of neurovirology · 2019Article
- Atypical presentation of cerebral schistosomiasis four years after exposure to Schistosoma mansoni.Epilepsy & behavior case reports · 2014Article
- Characterization Analysis of Schistosoma japonicum Plasma Membrane Repair Relative Gene Myoferlin.PloS one · 2013Article
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Abstract
Cerebral schistosomiasis and spinal schistosomiasis are severe underrecognized complications of Schistosoma sp. infection, and can occur at any time during the parasitic infection. Neuroschistosomiasis has been increasingly reported not only in endemic areas but also in Western countries owing to immigration and international travel. Immunogenic interaction between schistosome egg deposition and the delayed hypersensitivity reaction of the host are the main neuropathogenic mechanisms involved. Eggs induce a periovular granulomatous reaction in the tissues. In some cases, schistosome adult worms may aberrantly migrate to the central nervous system via the vertebral venous plexus and place the ova at an ectopic site. Headache and seizures are common in cerebral schistosomiasis, and intracranial hypertension and hydrocephalus may occur in tumour-like and cerebellar schistosomiasis. Spinal schistosomiasis may manifest itself as acute myelitis and/or myeloradiculopathy. Recognition of neuroschistosomiasis is important so that early treatment with praziquantel and steroids can be started in an attempt to prevent severe disability.
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