Filarial meningoencephalitis: discussion of a case
Vitris, M.; Nkam, M.; Binam, F.; Biouele, M.; Moyo, S.; Hengy, C.
Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 49(3): 293-295
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X PMID: 2682126 Document Number: 336960
Loiasis treatment by diethylcarbamazine (DEC) may be complicated by a meningoencephalitis that is often fatal. Following one case, four others have been reviewed in the literature and the therapeutic approach in resuscitation departments discussed. Until the discovery of other less-dangerous microfilaricidal or macrofilaricidal drugs, we raise the question of the opportunity to treat loiasis by DEC, while many authors consider it as a simple nuisance.