[Fascioliasis in children. A study of 10 cases]. / Fasciolosis en los niños. Estudio de 10 casos.
Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex
; 49(6): 365-71, 1992 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-1632911
ABSTRACT
These are the observation found in ten children with fascioliasis diagnosis at the Servicio de Parasitología, of the Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, from 1979 to 1990; six children in scholar age; one prescholar and three teenagers; only one was female. Four of them lined at the State of Mexico; three at Morelos; one at Puebla, another one at Oaxaca and the other one at Mexico City. In nine of the watercress eaten was confirmed. The most important clinic manifestations were fever, weight lose, paleness, hepatomegaly, hiporexia, right hypochondrium pain and diarrhoea. Diagnosis was established by counterimmunoelectrophoresis, indirect haemagglutination and there were found eggs by simple sedimentation, Ritchie's method and microscopic study of duodenal sample. Leukocytes counts were between 11,000 and 34,000/mm3. Eosinophils were to 77% with 24,430 totals. Only in three of them haemoglobin was found under 9 g/dL. All of them had hypergammaglobulinemia. In nine patients the alkaline phosphatase was found in higher levels; only in three of them, transaminase, oxalacetic and glutamic piruvic were found in higher levels. The most effective drug in the treatment was dehidroemetine.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Fascioliasis
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Límite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Mexico
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex
Año:
1992
Tipo del documento:
Article