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Among 810 parasitologically examined persons (1981) 277 (34%) showed positive findings. The high percentage of parasitisation in foreigners (86%) is to be explained by the in most cases aimed transfer of these patients (215 of the 810 persons). Affection with Schistosoma was recognized in 51 patients at the age of 17-47 years (means = 21.86), without Africans, and stood in the 3rd place of the distribution of frequency of the heterogeneous parasitoses. 49 of these patients came from Mozambique, 1 from Namibia and 1 from Zambia. In 51% S. haematobium was diagnosed, in 22% S. mansoni and in 27% a double infestation with the two forms of parasites. While 80% of the patients with affection of S. haematobium showed clinical symptoms (macrohaematuria, cystitis complaints), there were only 44% among the S. mansoni group. 47 patients were treated with Niridazole (Ambilhar, 25 mg/kg, 5-7 days), 2 patients with Praziquantel (Biltricide, 40 mg/kg, 1 day) and 2 other patients with Praziquantel after unsuccessful Niridazole therapy. Follow-up examinations were performed after 1, 3, 6 and 12 months. In 17% of the patients treated with Niridazole the primary treatment did not lead to cure; side effects (abdominal pain, nausea, vertigo) were observed in 55%. Praziquantel was tolerated very well. During a control period of 1 year living eggs of Schistosoma were no more proved.
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PMID:[Clinical aspects and therapy of schistosomiasis]. 661 96

Bruns' syndrome is characterized by sudden and strong headache, accompanied by vomiting, acuphenos and vertigo, triggered by abrupt movement of the head and can produce deep coma and death. This can be due to neurocysticercosis by cyst in the fourth ventricle, which contains the larval stage of Taenia solium. In the last years, new cases of this parasitosis are being seen in Spain because of the immigration from endemic areas, but the clinical forms of this infestation are not varied. We present a 44 year old man Ecuadorian who has clinical symptoms consistent with Bruns' syndrome secondary to cyst in the fourth ventricle that progressed badly despite undergoing surgery with ventriculoperitoneal shunt and treatment with albendazol. Finally, he was operated with the excision of the lesion by means of suboccipital craniectomy. We conclude that this syndrome must rule out a cystic or non-cystic, intraventricular lesion and that the appropriate manipulation of the cysticerotic ventricular cysts carries a more favourable prognosis.
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PMID:[Bruns' syndrome: description of a case of neurocysticercosis with pathological study]. 1572 76