[Complications observed in the treatment of trypanosomiasis in the Congo]

Abstract

The authors present the results obtained in the treatment of 453 sleeping sickness (T. gambiense) patients in the People's Republic of the Congo. They give the following conclusions: The mortality rate reaches 2,75% in the group of patients treated by melarsoprol and is nil in the group treated with pentamidin. The encephalitis rate is 2,1 per 100 series of melarsoprol. The treatment of encephalopathies with adrenaline according to the protocol of SINA gives very good results and should be generalized.