Rodica Rusu 1
1 Infectious diseases senior physician, Clinical Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases „Dr. V. Babeş”, Bucharest
Abstract
The author presents the case of an 11 year-old child who developed cerebral and peripheral vascular thromboses over a background genetic coagulation disease, revealed by a parasitic disease – trichinosis. The diagnosis was problematic and the clinical evolution was severe and prolonged due to the association of the two diseases and due to the patient’s precarious immune condition. The clinicians should be informed regarding the existence of a coagulation pathology, often ignored, whose prompt and correct diagnosis can save the patient’s life or ameliorate the disease’s evolution and prognostic.