ABSTRACT
A meningoencefalite chagásica é uma patologia rara, causada pela reativação da doenca de Chagas em pacientes imunocomprometidos. Manifesta-se com lesões cerebrais focais, difusas, expansivas ou pseudotumorais. Essa revisão da literatura estebelece a importância de se delinear o diagnóstico e de se estabelecer o tratamento precocemente. Considera ainda a possibilidade de que a reativação de doença de Chagas seja incluída como critério diagnóstico de Aids.
Subject(s)
Humans , Central Nervous System Protozoal Infections , Chagas Disease/complications , Chagas Disease/physiopathology , Chagas Disease/therapy , Opportunistic Infections/complications , HIV Seropositivity , Trypanosoma cruziABSTRACT
Reactivation of chronic Chagas' disease is a rare condition and occurs only in immunosuppressed patients. We report a case of a patient with a rapid and fatal reactivation of Chagas' disease, manifested by meningoencephalitis, which lead to a diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). We believe there is sufficient evidence to include the reactivation of Chagas' disease among the diagnostic criteria of AIDS in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection.