Parasitic Hematuria: Six Cases in a Row in a Single Centre in Spain
| Autor: | Almudena Carrión Valencia, Nuria Orribo Morales, Lorena García, Melania Santa Cruz Pérez, Adrián Amador Robayna, Jonathan Rodríguez Talavera, Begoña Ballesta Martínez, Manuel Felipe Ravina Pisaca |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Infertility
Schistosoma haematobium medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Bladder cancer biology Genitourinary system business.industry Urology Incidence (epidemiology) 030231 tropical medicine Developing country medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Surgery Praziquantel 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Western world 030212 general & internal medicine business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Urologia Internationalis. 102:360-363 |
| ISSN: | 1423-0399 0042-1138 |
| DOI: | 10.1159/000479334 |
| Popis: | Most cases of urogenital parasitosis are registered in Africa. However, migration movements and travellers moving from developed to developing countries are responsible for leading to an increased incidence of genitourinary infections caused by parasites in the western world including Spain having serious economic and health implications. The importance of its early detection and treatment also results from its potential risk for infertility, susceptibility for HIV infection and the development of bladder cancer. The most common presentation symptom is terminal haematuria, and when diagnosed, praziquantel is the treatment of choice. We report a series of 6 cases of urinary schistosomiasis that happened in a single centre in Spain and reminds the importance of having the infection in mind in certain cases of haematuria study. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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