Neurologic Complications of Trichinosis

Abstract

ALTHOUGH increasing attention has been paid to trichinosis in recent years, relatively little has been reported concerning its neurologic complications. Drowsiness, headache, depression and delirium are observed to be common findings. Frank meningeal irritation, hemiplegia, aphasia and other localized neurologic manifestations occur in from 10 to 17 per cent of all cases,1 , 2 but there are often no changes in the cerebrospinal fluid. The manner in which the infestation affects the brain has never been clearly demonstrated, although it is assumed that small cerebral vessels are occluded by the parasite. The prognosis of the cerebral symptoms in this disease is correspondingly . . .