Chronic diarrhea and malabsorption caused by Leishmania donovani

Autor: Chalamalasetty Sreenivasa, Baba, Govind K, Makharia, Purva, Mathur, Ruma, Ray, Siddhartha Datta, Gupta, J C, Samantaray
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology. 25(6)
ISSN: 0254-8860
Popis: Chronic diarrhea and malabsorption are uncommon in immunocompetent patients with visceral leishmaniasis. We report two immunocompetent patients with visceral leishmaniasis where the predominant presentation was chronic diarrhea. One of them had clinically overt malabsorption and duodenal mucosa was loaded with Leishmania donovani bodies. The other patient had diffuse colonic aphthous and discrete ulcerations and Leishmania donovani bodies were seen in the crush smears of the colonic mucosa. With amphotericin B, there was reversal of malabsorption and healing of colonic ulcers.
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