EEG AND CLINICAL MANIFESTATION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM IMPAIRMENT BY PULMONARY TREMATODIASIS
- VernacularTitle:肺吸虫病神经系统损害的临床及脑电图
- Author:
Chenggao ZHANG
;
Dexin SHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
EEG;
clinical manifestation;
nervous system;
pulmonary trematodiasis
- From:
Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University(Medical Sciences)
1981;0(03):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The clinical manifestation and EEG of 20 cas-es of the patients with damage to nervous systemby pulmonary trematoaiasis are analyzed in the ar-ticle. Those cases made up 30. 3% of the totalnumber of the patients suffered form pulmonarytrematodiasis treated during the same period of thetime. Their clinical signs and symptoms, apartfrom those of Lungs, of skin, and of muscule,were headache, hemiplegia, aphasia, epilepsy,haemorrage in the subarchnoid space and impair-ment of multiple cranial nerves. besides, therewas also a case with damage to the spinal cord. Cases with abnormal EEG constituted 95. 4%of the patients with brain damage. The degree ofthe EEG abnomality varied from case to case ac-cording to the severity and extent of the lesions inpatient brains. Generally speaking, the abnormali-ty of EEG in the cases with cerebral impairmentwas more severe than that in the cases with dam-age only of meningeal. In the cases with circum-scribed granuloma formation the abnormal EEG al-so showed localization. Just for those reasons, authors believe that acontineous check up of EEG is more helpful in pre-dicting the involvement of lesion in the brain, theseverity of the damage and even the outcome of thedisease.
