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Abdominal angiostrongyliasis: a case with severe evolution Angiostrongilíase abdominal: um caso com grave evolução [PDF]

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2005
A case of acute abdomen disease caused by abdominal angiostrongyliasis is reported. A 42-year-old otherwise healthy patient presented with a complaint of nine days of abdominal pain, constipation, disury, fever and right iliac fossa palpable mass ...
José Wellington Alves dos Santos, Ricardo Morgental Zambenedetti, Keli Cristina Mann, Marta Pires da Rocha, Ewerton Nunes Morais, Carlos Graeff-Teixeira   +5 more
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease Vermes, caramujos e humanos: as construções médica e popular de uma doença infecciosa emergente [PDF]

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2011
The identification of the worm Angiostrongylus costaricensis parasitizing land snails and humans in Southern Brazil suggests under-diagnosis and under-notification of patients with abdominal angiostrongyliasis.
Márcia Grisotti, Fernando Dias de Avila-Pires   +1 more
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Betametasona e extrato aquoso de Arctium lappa no tratamento da angiostrongilíase Betamethasone and aqueous extract of Arctium lappa for treating angiostrongyliasis [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2008
Angiostrongylus costaricensis é um parasita que causa angiostrongilíase abdominal em humanos, seu tratamento inclui o uso de antiinflamatórios apesar da falta de estudos que justifiquem esta conduta.
Camila Argenta Fante, Solange Dieterish, Rubens Rodriguez   +2 more
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Abdominal angiostrongyliasis: report of two cases with different clinical presentations Angiostrongilíase abdominal: relato de dois casos com diferentes apresentações clínicas [PDF]

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2008
Abdominal angiostrongyliasis is a sporadic infectious disease caused by the nematode Angiostrongylus costaricensis. It usually presents as acute abdomen, secondary to mesenteric ischemia, and pronounced eosinophilia. In some cases its course is insidious
Rubens Rodriguez, Roberta Martins Dequi, Lucas Peruzzo, Paulo Moacir Mesquita, Errol Garcia, Fernando Fornari   +5 more
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Treatment with mebendazole is not associated with distal migration of adult Angiostrongylus costaricensis in the murine experimental infection O tratamento com mebendazol não está associado a migração distal de adultos de Angiostrongylus costaricensis na infecção experimental murina [PDF]

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2004
Abdominal angiostrongyliasis is a zoonotic infection produced by a metastrongylid intra-arterial nematode, Angiostrongylus costaricensis. Human accidental infection may result in abdominal lesions and treatment with anti-helminthics is contra-indicated ...
Márcia Bohrer Mentz, Carlos Graeff-Teixeira, Cinara Tentardini Garrido   +2 more
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Angiostrongiliase abdominal. Estudo anatomo-patologico de quatro casos observados no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Abdominal angiostrongyliasis.Anatomo-pathological study of 4 cases observed in Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1984
Os autores descrevem as lesões anatômicas de quatro casos de angiostrongilíase abdominal, destacando as modificações arteriais peculiares a esta parasitose.The authors describe the anatomic lesion on four cases of abdominal angiostrogiliasis and point ...
Aventino A. Agostini, Ana M. Marcolan, Jeanne M. C. Lisot, José U. F. Lisot   +3 more
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Jejunal perforation caused by abdominal angiostrongyliasis Perfuração jejunal causada por angiostrongilíase abdominal

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1999
The authors describe a case of abdominal angiostrongyliasis in an adult patient presenting acute abdominal pain caused by jejunal perforation. The case was unusual, as this affliction habitually involves the terminal ileum, appendix, cecum or ascending ...
Jaques WAISBERG, Carlos Eduardo CORSI, Marisa Valente REBELO, Vilma Therezinha Trench VIEIRA, Sansom Henrique BROMBERG, Paulo Amaral dos SANTOS, Rodrigo MONTEIRO   +6 more
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Diagnóstico da angiostrongilíase abdominal utilizando PCR em soro de pacientes [PDF]

, 2003
Abdominal angiostrongyliasis is a zoonotic infection caused by an intra-vascular nematode parasitic of wild rodents, Angiostrongylus costaricensis.
Graeff-Teixeira, Carlos, Silva, Ana Cristina Arámburu da, Zaha, Arnaldo   +2 more
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Angiostrongylus costaricensis: first record of its occurrence in the State of Espirito Santo, Brazil, and a review of its geographic distribution Angiostrongylus costaricensis: primeiro relato de sua ocorrência no estado do Espírito Santo, Brasil, e revisão de sua distribuição geográfica

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1995
Abdominal angiostrongyliasis is a parasitic disease caused by Angiostrongylus costaricensis, a metastrongylid nematode with wide geographic distribution, occurring from the United States to Argentina.
Gil Patrus M. Pena, José de Souza Andrade Filho, Samuel Curvelo de Assis   +2 more
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Clinical and epidemiological aspects of abdominal angiostrongyliasis in Southern Brazil Aspectos clínicos e epidemiológicos da angiostrongilíase abdominal no sul do Brasil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1991
Most of the cases of abdominal angiostrongyliasis in Brazil were reported from the southern States of São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul (RS). A study in 27 cases from RS revealed a distinct local epidemiology.
Carlos Graeff-Teixeira, Lea Camillo-Coura, Henrique Leonel Lenzi   +2 more
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