Tricocefalosis masiva en un adulto diagnosticada por colonoscopía

A case of massive trichuriasis in a 37-year-old female from a rural locality of the Metropolitan Region of Chile, with antecedents of alcoholism, chronic hepatic damage and portal cavernomatosis, is presented. Since 12 year ago she has had geophagia. In the last six months she has frequently present...

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Autores principales:	Sapunar,Jorge, Gil,Luis Carlos, Gil,José Germán
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Programa de Parasitología. Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad de Chile 1999
Materias:	Tricocefalosis geofagia disentería mebendazol
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0365-940219990003000102000-10-04Tricocefalosis masiva en un adulto diagnosticada por colonoscopíaSapunar,JorgeGil,Luis CarlosGil,José Germán Tricocefalosis geofagia disentería mebendazol A case of massive trichuriasis in a 37-year-old female from a rural locality of the Metropolitan Region of Chile, with antecedents of alcoholism, chronic hepatic damage and portal cavernomatosis, is presented. Since 12 year ago she has had geophagia. In the last six months she has frequently presented liquid diarrhea, colic abdominal pains, tenesmus and sensation of abdominal distention. Clinical and laboratory tests confirmed her hepatic affection associated with a celiac disease with anemia and hypereosinophilia. Within a week diarrhea became worse and dysentery appeared. A cólonoscopy revealed an impressive and massive trichuriasis. The patient was succesfully treated with two cures of 200 mg tablets of mebendazole twice daily for three days with a week interval. After the first cure she evacuated a bidamount of Tricuris trichiura, fecal evacuations became nornal, geophagia disappeared and recovered 4 kg of body weightinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPrograma de Parasitología. Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad de ChileBoletín chileno de parasitología v.54 n.3-4 19991999-07-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0365-94021999000300010es10.4067/S0365-94021999000300010
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spellingShingle	Tricocefalosis geofagia disentería mebendazol Sapunar,Jorge Gil,Luis Carlos Gil,José Germán Tricocefalosis masiva en un adulto diagnosticada por colonoscopía
description	A case of massive trichuriasis in a 37-year-old female from a rural locality of the Metropolitan Region of Chile, with antecedents of alcoholism, chronic hepatic damage and portal cavernomatosis, is presented. Since 12 year ago she has had geophagia. In the last six months she has frequently presented liquid diarrhea, colic abdominal pains, tenesmus and sensation of abdominal distention. Clinical and laboratory tests confirmed her hepatic affection associated with a celiac disease with anemia and hypereosinophilia. Within a week diarrhea became worse and dysentery appeared. A cólonoscopy revealed an impressive and massive trichuriasis. The patient was succesfully treated with two cures of 200 mg tablets of mebendazole twice daily for three days with a week interval. After the first cure she evacuated a bidamount of Tricuris trichiura, fecal evacuations became nornal, geophagia disappeared and recovered 4 kg of body weight
author	Sapunar,Jorge Gil,Luis Carlos Gil,José Germán
author_facet	Sapunar,Jorge Gil,Luis Carlos Gil,José Germán
author_sort	Sapunar,Jorge
title	Tricocefalosis masiva en un adulto diagnosticada por colonoscopía
title_short	Tricocefalosis masiva en un adulto diagnosticada por colonoscopía
title_full	Tricocefalosis masiva en un adulto diagnosticada por colonoscopía
title_fullStr	Tricocefalosis masiva en un adulto diagnosticada por colonoscopía
title_full_unstemmed	Tricocefalosis masiva en un adulto diagnosticada por colonoscopía
title_sort	tricocefalosis masiva en un adulto diagnosticada por colonoscopía
publisher	Programa de Parasitología. Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad de Chile
publishDate	1999
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Tricocefalosis masiva en un adulto diagnosticada por colonoscopía

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