2020, Number 5
Hepatic fasciolosis, a series of cases reported in Matanzas, Cuba
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: the hepatic fasciolosis is a parasitic disease of difficult prognosis. The varied and multiple symptoms characterizing the disease, the intermittent and late ejection of the parasite eggs, and also the difficult access to immunological studies in the country areas sometimes attempts against the confirmation of parasitism. During the last years, in the province of Matanzas, several sick persons from Pedro Betancourt were suspicious of fasciolosis with different digestive symptoms, fever and eosinophilia.Objective: to characterize the clinical and epidemiological aspects of the patients diagnosed of hepatic fasciolosis.
Materials and method: an observational, descriptive study was performed in in-patients of the Service of Internal Medicine of the Hospital Faustino Perez with the presumptive diagnosis of hepatic fascilosis in the period January 2011-December 2013. Data collection was made through questioning, physical examination, clinical record and epidemiological inquiries.
Results: risk behaviors are evidenced given the water plants and un-boiled water consumption in affected persons. The acute `hase in these individuals is characterized by fever, abdominal pain, hepatomegaly and big eosinophilia. The diagnosis of certainty was made by immunologic tests. The patients were treated with triclabendazol with clinical improvement and little adverse reactions.
Conclusions: health professionals when assisting a patient from a country area with eating habits of fresh vegetable consumption and suggestive clinical characteristics should carry out studies to confirm Fasciola hepatica infection.
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