Case 3-2017. A 62-Year-Old Man with Cardiac Sarcoidosis and New Diplopia and Weakness

N Engl J Med. 2017 Jan 26;376(4):368-379. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1610713.

Authors

Martin A Samuels¹, R Gilberto Gonzalez¹, Azure T Makadzange¹, E Tessa Hedley-Whyte¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Neurology (M.A.S.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Departments of Radiology (R.G.G.), Medicine (A.T.M.), and Pathology (E.T.H.-W.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Neurology (M.A.S.), Radiology (R.G.G.), Medicine (A.T.M.), and Pathology (E.T.H-W.), Harvard Medical School - all in Boston.

PMID: 28121502
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1610713

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Acanthamoeba / isolation & purification
Amebiasis / complications
Amebiasis / diagnosis*
Blood Chemical Analysis
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Brain / parasitology
Brain / pathology*
Brain Diseases / chemically induced
Cardiomyopathies / complications
Diagnosis, Differential
Diplopia / etiology
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Immunocompromised Host
Male
Meningoencephalitis / complications
Meningoencephalitis / diagnosis*
Meningoencephalitis / parasitology
Middle Aged
Muscle Weakness / etiology
Sarcoidosis / complications
Sarcoidosis / diagnosis
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Grants and funding

K08 AI104348/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States