Cysticercosis Resembling Myopathy

McGill, R. J.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(48)91163-5

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“…Contudo, há uma uniformidade relativa à maior freqüência das formas encefálica e muscular esquelética. Também são relatados casos de cisticercose cardíaca, ocular, hepática, oral, entre outras 2,7,10,11,14 . O presente estudo difere da literatura por apresentar a localização cardíaca como a segunda mais freqüente.…”

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Ocorrência de cisticercose (Cysticercus cellulosae) encefálica e cardíaca em necropsias

1999

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Ocorrência de cisticercose (Cysticercus cellulosae) encefálica e cardíaca em necropsias

1999

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“…The most commonly reported parasitic causes of myositis are Trichinella spp. (trichinosis) (7,35), Taenia solium (cysticercosis) (1,69,146,198), and Toxoplasma gondii (toxoplasmosis) (176,179,191). However, a wide range of other parasites may cause myalgias or myositis.…”

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“…Of note, the process of death and calcification appears to occur earlier after infection within striated muscles than in the brain. Occasionally cases of myopathy as well as solitary intramuscular lesions initially mistaken as tumors have been reported (1,69,146). A case of disseminated muscular cysticercosis with myositis manifesting as diffuse myalgias and lower extremity weakness due to the inflammatory reaction around dying cysts has been reported (229).…”

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Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic, and Viral Myositis

2008

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SUMMARY Infectious myositis may be caused by a broad range of bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral agents. Infectious myositis is overall uncommon given the relative resistance of the musculature to infection. For example, inciting events, including trauma, surgery, or the presence of foreign bodies or devitalized tissue, are often present in cases of bacterial myositis. Bacterial causes are categorized by clinical presentation, anatomic location, and causative organisms into the categories of pyomyositis, psoas abscess, Staphylococcus aureus myositis, group A streptococcal necrotizing myositis, group B streptococcal myositis, clostridial gas gangrene, and nonclostridial myositis. Fungal myositis is rare and usually occurs among immunocompromised hosts. Parasitic myositis is most commonly a result of trichinosis or cystericercosis, but other protozoa or helminths may be involved. A parasitic cause of myositis is suggested by the travel history and presence of eosinophilia. Viruses may cause diffuse muscle involvement with clinical manifestations, such as benign acute myositis (most commonly due to influenza virus), pleurodynia (coxsackievirus B), acute rhabdomyolysis, or an immune-mediated polymyositis. The diagnosis of myositis is suggested by the clinical picture and radiologic imaging, and the etiologic agent is confirmed by microbiologic or serologic testing. Therapy is based on the clinical presentation and the underlying pathogen.

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“…In addition, focal lesions mimicking tumors have been reported. 9 On the other end of the spectrum, disseminated muscular cysticercosis presents as diffuse myalgias and lower limb weakness simulating a systemic myopathy. 9 Another interesting presentation is "pseudohypertrophic myopathy" in which the muscles are symmetrically enlarged.…”

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“…9 On the other end of the spectrum, disseminated muscular cysticercosis presents as diffuse myalgias and lower limb weakness simulating a systemic myopathy. 9 Another interesting presentation is "pseudohypertrophic myopathy" in which the muscles are symmetrically enlarged. 10 Most cases of symptomatic muscle involvement are reported in the orbit where extra-ocular muscle infestation leads to proptosis.…”

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It’s Even Here! Two Rare Cases of Pyriformis Myocysticercus

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Cysticercus, the larval form of Taenia Solium, a tapeworm, can infest various tissues in the human body. Though central nervous system involvement is the most dramatic form of infestation, several other uncommon sites of has been reported in the literature. One such involvement is that of the musculature. The most easily recalled manifestation of myocysticercus is that in the orbit where the patients present with painful proptosis. However, other less common muscular sites of involvement are documented in case reports. To the best of our knowledge, there are no documented cases of pyriformis muscle infestation with cysticercus. We came across two interesting cases, where imaging established the diagnosis of isolated pyriformis cysticercosis. Follow up after one month of anti-elminthic treatment imaging revealed disappearance of the lesions. Keywords: magnetic resonance imaging,myocysticercosis; pyriformis; ultrasound. | PubMed

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Cysticercosis Resembling Myopathy

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Ocorrência de cisticercose (Cysticercus cellulosae) encefálica e cardíaca em necropsias

Ocorrência de cisticercose (Cysticercus cellulosae) encefálica e cardíaca em necropsias

Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic, and Viral Myositis

It’s Even Here! Two Rare Cases of Pyriformis Myocysticercus

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