Is ultrasound a useful adjunct for assessing malaria patients?
| Autor: | Chiara de Bernardis, Joachim Richter, Eliana Savalli, Susanne Walter, Abdurrahman Sagir, Dieter Häussinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Diagnostic methods Primaquine Adolescent Plasmodium falciparum Spleen Internal medicine medicine Animals Humans In patient Malaria Falciparum Child Aged Ultrasonography General Veterinary biology business.industry Ultrasound General Medicine Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Surgery Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Insect Science Child Preschool Splenomegaly Parasitology Female business Malaria medicine.drug Hepatomegaly |
| Zdroj: | Parasitology research. 94(5) |
| ISSN: | 0932-0113 |
| Popis: | The value of ultrasonography as an adjunct for diagnosis and monitoring malaria was investigated. In all, 118 patients (male/female 65/53; age 2–78 years, median 29 years) with malaria underwent a standardised abdominal ultrasound examination at baseline. In 62 out of 118 patients, ultrasonography was repeated 21 days later. In the results at baseline, huge splenomegaly with firm organ consistency, consistent with hyperreactive malarious splenomegaly syndrome, was observed in two Cameroonese children. In the other 116 patients, the most common finding was non-specific splenomegaly (96/116, 82.76%), occurring more frequently in non-immune patients (71/78, 91.03%) than in patients who had grown up in malaria-endemic areas (25/38, 65.79%; P |
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