[Female patient with organic psychosyndrome and neurological focal signs after immunosuppressant therapy]

Internist (Berl). 2008 Jan;49(1):101-5. doi: 10.1007/s00108-007-1983-x.
[Article in German]

Abstract

Cerebral toxoplasmosis nearly exclusively affects immunodeficient or immunocompromised patients. Mostly, it is a reactivation of latent toxoplasmosis. The pathogens, persisting in the reticuloendothelial system of heart and skeletal muscle cells, are causing a multifocal necrotizing encephalitis. The characteristic clinical features are organic psychosyndrome and focal neurological signs such as monoparesis, hemiparesis, aphasia, or seizures. Here we describe a 56-years-old patient who developed cerebral toxoplasmosis after receiving stem-cell transplantation treatment for acute myeloic leukemia, and we discuss the clinical features, differential diagnoses and therapeutic strategies.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Humans
  • Immunosuppression Therapy / adverse effects*
  • Middle Aged
  • Psychophysiologic Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Psychophysiologic Disorders / etiology*
  • Psychophysiologic Disorders / therapy
  • Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral / diagnosis*
  • Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral / etiology*
  • Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral / therapy
  • Treatment Outcome