Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sawamura, R
• Fernandes, M I
• Peres, L C
• Galvão, L C
• Goldani, H A
• Jorge, S M
• de Melo Rocha, G
• de Souza, N M

Titel

Hepatic capillariasis in children: report of 3 cases in Brazil

Ist Teil von

• The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 1999-10, Vol.61 (4), p.642

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Capillaria hepatica is a helminth that may cause an extremely rare condition of parasitic hepatitis. Only 29 cases have been published, 2 of them in Brazil. We report here 3 cases of children in Brazil with massive hepatic capillariasis who presented the characteristic triad of this type of infection, i.e., persistent fever, hepatomegaly, and eosinophilia. The diagnosis was made by liver biopsy. All children responded well after treatment with thiabendazole (case 1), albendazole (case 3), and albendazole in combination with a corticoid (case 2). Case 1 has been followed-up for 24 years, an event not previously reported in the literature.