[Successful treatment of echinococcal kidney disease with a combination of albendazole administration and percutaneous drainage]. / Uspesno lecenje ehinokokne bolesti bubrega kombinovanom primenom albendazola i perkutane drenaze.

Primary echinococcosis of the kidney, with no involvement of other organs is very rare manifestation of hydatid disease in humans. Until few years ago surgical treatment was the only therapeutical choice in patients suffering from this disease. This is a case report of a patient with large hydatid cyst of the left kidney. The patient was successfully treated with albendazole and percutaneous drainage of the cyst.

[Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever]. / Krimska-kongo hemoragijska grozinica.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever was for the first time recognized in Yugoslavia in 1971. In this paper were presented clinical and laboratory findings of a patient infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Kosovo in 1999. The disease was manifested with fever, headache, vomiting, myalgia, abdominal pain, pharyngitis, conjuctival injection, diarrhoea, hypotension, gingival bleeding, skin hemorrhages, hematuria, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, jaundice, thrombocytopenia, prolonged prothrombin and partial thromboplastin time, high serum fibrinogen degradation product, leukocytosis, mild anemia, elevated levels of bilirubin and serum aminotransferases. Diagnosis was set clinically, epidemiologically and supported by serological tests. Supportive management of hypotension, multi-organ failure, coagulation disturbances the patient was of the utmost in the treatment together with the isolation and prophylactic measures.