Disseminated Strongyloides stercoralis: a fatal case eluding diagnosis

We have described a patient who died of disseminated strongyloidiasis as a result of steroid therapy, despite an extensive diagnostic evaluation in the face of eosinophilia, but before any immunosuppressive therapy. This death might have been prevented by presumptive treatment after work-up but befo...

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Published inSouthern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.) Vol. 76; no. 11; p. 1438
Main Authors Klein, R A, Cleri, D J, Doshi, V, Brasitus, T A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.11.1983
Subjects
Combined Modality Therapy
Eosinophilia - etiology
Humans
Jejunum - microbiology
Male
Middle Aged
Strongyloides
Strongyloidiasis - diagnosis
Strongyloidiasis - mortality
Strongyloidiasis - pathology
Thiabendazole - therapeutic use
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Summary:We have described a patient who died of disseminated strongyloidiasis as a result of steroid therapy, despite an extensive diagnostic evaluation in the face of eosinophilia, but before any immunosuppressive therapy. This death might have been prevented by presumptive treatment after work-up but before immunosuppressive therapy, and repeat diagnostic evaluation after antistrongyloides therapy and during immunosuppressive therapy.
ISSN:0038-4348
DOI:10.1097/00007611-198311000-00030