To report three patients with ocular angiostrongyliasis who presented with a variety of clinical findings. All patients presented with blurred vision and one had a history of eosinophilic meningitis.

1 We report a case of ocular Angiostrongyliasis in which a live, motile nematode was seen swimming in the anterior chamber, and subsequently successfully removed from the eye. A 33-year-old white ...

When a human gets this parasite, it can cause a disease known as angiostrongyliasis, or neural angiostrongyliasis (NAS). Some people call this rat lungworm disease. Being infected with rat ...

This was unfortunately the recent situation for a 30-year-old woman, whose bout of angiostrongyliasis (also known as rat lungworm disease) was recently highlighted in a recent New England Journal ...

Complete clinical information was available for 12 of the patients who had a confirmed diagnosis of angiostrongyliasis. Six patients had reportedly consumed raw vegetables from local gardens ...

All of the newly identified cases of the disease, sometimes called angiostrongyliasis, were in adult visitors from the mainland United States who contracted the parasitic worm while traveling on ...

Thereafter, she was admitted to the hospital for further investigations. She was then detected with angiostrongyliasis, a parasitic infection caused by the roundworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis ...

Article continues below Furthermore, it has been reported that the patient may have picked up the life-threatening parasitic infection, known as angiostrongyliasis or ‘rat lungworm’, from ...