Published in Respiration
A 44-year-old woman with a history of pulmonary embolism and abdominal echinococcosis complained of sudden thoracic pain and shortness of breath. A D-dimer of 77.5 mg/l (reference ≤0.5 mg/l) was found. Chest CT scan revealed obstruction of the right lower and middle lobe pulmonary artery (PA). Anticoagulation therapy was initiated for the presumed ...
Published in Current Tropical Medicine Reports
Purpose of ReviewThe purpose is to report and describe four cases of Echinococcus vogeli hydatidosis in Colombia.Recent FindingsFour E. vogeli polycystic hydatidosis cases are presented, two males and two females, aged 18 to 68 years old, from four separate forest Colombian regions. The initial diagnosis of the cystic disease was radiologically obt...
Published in Neuro-Chirurgie
Bone echinococcosis is rare and represents about 2% of hydatidosis. The spine localization is found in half of the cases. This pathology particularly occurs in the Eastern and Southern countries of Mediterranean sheep breeding areas, but still rare in metropolitan France. Spinal cord compression is a frequent presentation of spinal hydatidosis but ...
Published in Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases
Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a chronic, complex, and neglected disease. Its treatment depends on a number of factors, such as location, size, and stage of the cysts, and availability of therapeutic options. Despite the wealth of scientific literature on treatment for echinococcosis, the current management of the disease is based on poor to moderat...
Published in Tropical doctor
Staining techniques have immeasurably aided diagnosis of hydatid disease on several instances. The use of staining techniques for their ability to aid in the morphological diagnosis of hydatid elements, especially at rare and uncommon sites, is discussed.
Published in Tropical doctor
Staining techniques have immeasurably aided diagnosis of hydatid disease on several instances. The use of staining techniques for their ability to aid in the morphological diagnosis of hydatid elements, especially at rare and uncommon sites, is discussed.
Published in Mycopathologia
Aspergilloma infection consists of a mass of fungal hyphae, inflammatory cells, fibrin, mucus, and tissue debris and can colonize lung cavities due to underlying diseases such as tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, bronchiectasis, cavitary lung cancer, neoplasms, ankylosing spondylitis, bronchial cysts, and pulmonary infarction. Here we report coinfection o...
Published in Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica
In Extremadura hydatid disease is still frequent. With a clear decrease in the number of paediatric cases. The number of cases obtained from HDRs regarding Notification System Diseases Extremadura suggests the need for modifications to improve surveillance and control of hydatid disease.
Published in Indian Journal of Surgery
Hydatid disease is a parasitic infestation of humans and herbivorous animals, caused by Echinococcus granulosus. A 55-year-old woman had no prior surgery for hydatid disease earlier. Total cystopericystectomy was performed without cyst rupture. Albendazole was given postoperatively. Neither systemic or local complications nor recurrences were found...
Published in Avicenna journal of phytomedicine
Hydatidosis is one of the most important zoonotic diseases and surgery is still the main treatment for this problem. One of the side effects of hydatid cyst surgery is recurrence, thus, searching and assessment of some new agents such as medicinal plant extracts are very important. In the present study, the scolicidal effect of ethanolic extract of...
