ABSTRACT
A forty three-year-old female, born in a rural area of southern Chile, at the age of 30 presented pain and limitation of motility of the righ shoulder. Later on, she presented an increasing of volume at the right scapular region. A radiography showed an osteolytic lesion of the scapula. In a biopsy an osseous hydatidosis was found and a hydatid cyst was extirpated from the soft tissues. Four years later, as she presented again pain and volume increasing in the same anatomical area, albendazole was given to her, and a CAT practiced revealed osteolytic lesions of the bone, several periosteal ruptures and multiple cyst in the muscles. She was submitted so surgery again in order to extirpate cyst. After two years the patient presented the same clinical manifestations and radiological and CAT images previously observed. In considering all these facts a radical surgery was decided
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Humans , Female , Adult , Echinococcosis/diagnosis , Scapula/parasitology , Dogs/parasitology , Echinococcosis/pathology , Echinococcosis/surgery , Echinococcosis/transmission , Scapula/surgery , Scapula/pathologyABSTRACT
Using and Elisa technique, IgG antibodies against hepatitis E virus were measured in 40 alcoholics, 40 hemophilics, 174 blood donors, 36 subjects with acute non A non B non C hepatitis and 66 subjects with acute hepatitis A. Antibodies were detected in 1 alcoholic (2,5 percent), 3 hemophilics (7,5 percent), 7 blood donors (4 percent), 3 patients with non-A-non-B-non-C hepatitis (8,3 percent) and 3 patients with acute hepatitis A (4,5 percent). A low frequency of hepatitis E infection was detected in the studied subjects
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Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Hepatitis E virus/pathogenicity , Hepatitis E/epidemiology , Hepatitis Antibodies/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
Thirty two patients (18 males whose ages ranged from 32 to 68 years old) with hepatitis C virus chronic hepatitis (positive anti-HCV by ELISA, conformed by RIBA II) that were followed by the authors during 2 to 25 years, were retrospectively analyzed. 13 subjects had a history of blood transfusions, one had an accidental pinprick and other sexual contact with a HCV positive individual; the transmission source was not identified in the resting 19 subjects. Only 5 individuals had an acute onset. The rest of the patients had a few symptoms with moderate and fluctuating transaminase elevations. Liver biopsy at the onset showed a chronic hepatitis with moderate activity, even in 15 individuals with cirrhosis (47 percent). During follow up, six subjects deteriorated clinically, appearing liver failure and 3 of these died 4, 5 and 14 years after the disease appearance. No subject developed a hepatocarcinoma