Radiological changes after medical treatment of vesical schistosomiasis.
Radiological changes after medical treatment of vesical schistosomiasis.
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膀胱血吸虫病药物治疗后的放射学变化。
DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(66)90826-9
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发表时间:
1966
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影响因子:
168.9
通讯作者:
H. Gilles
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作者:
A. Lucas;C. Adeniyi;W. Cockshott;H. Gilles
Recently, several groups of workers have shown the frequency of gross urological changes in children in various areas in Africa of endemicity of infections caused bySchistosoma haematobium[thisBulletin, 1962, v. 59, 461; 1964, v. 61, 1221bis; 1966, v. 63, 770]. The ultimate significance of these cannot be determined without observation of the affected children for some years, and a study to this end is in progress at Ibadan, Nigeria.The present is a report on the changes in the considerable urological abnormalities originally evident in 12 children, some weeks or months after specific treatment (10 treated with Ambilhar and 2 with lucanthone) for the schistosomal infections. The bladders of 3 children with nodular filling defects gave normal cystograms when re-examined at 25 to 60 weeks after treatment; a similar defect with dilatation of the left ureter and a hydronephrosis was found to have resolved at the fourteenth week. In 2 other children with bladder defects or back pressure changes in both kidneys, but both with bladder calcification, all abnormalities other than the calcification had vanished at 27 and 74 weeks. 2 further patients with bladder filling defects and renal back pressure were also entirely relieved of these defects when examined again after 26 and 28 weeks. In only 4 of the 12 children was there no significant change in the intravenous pyelograms when repeated 14 to 26 weeks after specific treatment. Some excellent radiographs illustrate the authors' findings.Though the figures are small these results are encouraging, as they suggest that schistosomal granulomatous lesions may resolve without significant residual damage. The implications in respect of treatment policy are obvious.A. R. D. Adams.