Chagas disease: neurological features
Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .
Chagas disease: neurological features. Multifocal, Nodular. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Meningoencephalitis: types
- Multifocal
- Nodular
Stroke
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Cranial neuropathies
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Peripheral neuropathy (PN)
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Other neurological features
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Synonym
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References
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- Teixeira AR, Nitz N, Guimaro MC, Gomes C, Santos-Buch CA. Chagas disease. Postgrad Med J 2006; 82:788-798.
- Pittella JE. Central nervous system involvement in Chagas disease: a hundred-year-old history. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2009; 103:973-978.
- de Paiva Bezerra R, de Miranda Alves MA, Conforto AB, Rodrigues DLG, Silva GS. Etiological classification of stroke in patients with Chagas disease using TOAST, Causative Classification System TOAST, and ASCOD phenotyping. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2017; 26:2864-2869.
- Carod-Artal FJ, Vargas AP, Melo M, Horan TA. American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease): an unrecognised cause of stroke. JNNP 2003; 74:516-518.
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