Cutaneous larva migrans associated with Löffler's syndrome.

Abstract

We describe a patient who was admitted to hospital after returning from a holiday in Thailand with coronary artery disease and ventricular tachycardia. As an incidental finding, the routine chest radiography showed migratory pulmonary infiltrates. A peripheral blood smear showed eosinophilia. Physical examination revealed multiple, slightly raised, erythematous, serpentine tracks on the buttocks. A clinical diagnosis of larva migrans was made, and the patient was treated with oral albendazole 400 mg on 5 consecutive days and a single dose of oral praziquantel 3600 mg. By the end of treatment, most of the cutaneous lesions, the pulmonary infiltrates and the peripheral eosinophilia had resolved. The final diagnosis was larva migrans associated with Löffler's syndrome.

• Authors: Natalie A Schaub, André P Perruchoud, Stanislaw A Buechner
• Journal: Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland) (Dermatology) Vol. 205 Issue 2 Pg. 207-9 ( 2002) ISSN: 1018-8665 [Print] Switzerland
• PMID: 12218250 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
• Copyright: Copyright 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel

Topics

• Adult
• Humans
• Larva Migrans (complications, diagnosis, drug therapy)
• Male
• Pulmonary Eosinophilia (complications, diagnosis)