Relevance of Early Diagnosis in Reactivated Acute Nervous Form of Chagas Disease: Importance of Cytology in Cerebrospinal Fluid

Abstract

The presence of trypomastigote Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) was detected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of an immunosuppressed patient, due to AIDS, and diagnosed as reactivated acute nervous form of Chagas disease. We consider the importance of the cytological study of these kinds of smears in immunosuppressed patients who present focal neurological lesions as the early diagnosis of this condition, mainly to reduce the high mortality ratio that it has.




J Neurol Res. 2017;7(1-2):13-15
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jnr416w