[Case of trichinosis with a fatal outcome].

Death with trichinelliasis of a 30-year-old man who had used for food raw pork not subjected to trichinelloscopy is described. In the terminal period of the disease there was a clinical picture of ascending polyradiculoneuritis of the type of Landry syndrome which was the main clinical diagnosis. Morphological examinations revealed massive larval invasion of the voluntary muscles, trichinellous myositis, glossitis, myocarditis, meningoencephalitis, trichinellous pneumonia. The cause of death was severe toxicity, respiratory and cardiac insufficiency.