Some clinical, pathological and immunological studies of peripheral nerves in hepatosplenic schistosomiasis

ABSTRACT

The present study was conducted on 20 patients with chronic active schistosomiasis. They were subjected to clinical, some pathological and immunological studies. The histopathological changes of the fascicular sural nerve biopsy specimens were abnormal in 60% of the patients, normal in 25% and inconclusive in the remainders. Immunoglobulin deposition in the nerves and the intraneural blood vessels was demonstrated in high percentage of the studied cases