Friday, November 23, 2012
A Case of Steroid-induced Hyperinfective Strongyloidiasis with Bacterial Meningitis.
A Case of Steroid-induced Hyperinfective Strongyloidiasis with Bacterial Meningitis.
Nov 2012
[Article in Korean]
Source
Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Catholic University Medical Center, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, 33 Duryugongwon-ro 17-gil, Nam-gu, Daegu 705-718, Korea.
Abstract
Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil transmitted intestinal nematode that is endemic in the tropical and subtropical regions. In most individuals who are infected, chronic, usually asymptomatic, gastrointestinal infection persists. But, in immunocompromized hosts or in patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy, autoinfection of S. stercoralis may result in the dissemination of larvae, leading to fatal hyperinfection and increased rate of complications. We report a case of hyperinfective strongyloidiasis with bacterial meningitis in a patient receiving steroid therapy. Strongyloidiasis was diagnosed by the presence of filariform larvae of S. stercoralis in the bronchoalveolar lavage cytology and upper gastrointestinal endoscopic biopsy specimen. Her clinical symptoms had progressively aggravated and developed bacterial meningitis during treatment. She died despite aggressive antibiotic and antihelminthic therapy.
Labels: antibiotic, antihelminthic therapy, autoinfection, bacterial meningitis, Hyperinfective Strongyloidiasis, immunocompromized host, immunosuppressive therapy
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