The types and timing of the degenerative changes seen in the cysts during and after benzimidazole treatment of cystic echinococcosis
| Autor: | A Ivanov, D. Takov, S. Donev, K. Katzarov, T. Todorov, K. Vutova |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Echinococcosis Pulmonary Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment Mebendazole Helminthiasis Albendazole Echinococcosis parasitic diseases medicine Humans Cyst Prospective Studies Child Aged Ultrasonography Anthelmintics Chemotherapy Lung business.industry Cysts Anticestodal Agents Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Treatment Outcome Abdomen Parasitology Benzimidazoles Female business Tomography X-Ray Computed medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology. 99(7) |
| ISSN: | 0003-4983 |
| Popis: | In a large-scale Bulgarian study, 122 patients with abdominal and/or lung echinococcosis were randomly selected for treatment with albendazole or mebendazole. The main aims were to evaluate the effect of each drug on the hydatid cysts, to follow the changes in cyst morphology during and after treatment, and to determine how quickly each drug produced the first, detectable, degenerative changes in the cysts. Follow-up was based on periodic ultrasonography, chest radiography and computed tomography. The abdominal cysts were categorised as small ( |
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