ABSTRACT
We report a case of live adult Bancroftian Filarial nematode removed from the sub conjunctival tissue of a 58-year-old woman from the temporal limbus of her left eye.
Subject(s)
Animals , Conjunctiva/parasitology , Conjunctival Diseases/parasitology , Eye Infections, Parasitic/parasitology , Female , Filariasis/parasitology , Humans , Middle Aged , Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures/methods , Wuchereria bancrofti/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
Renal involvement was studied in 70 patients with leprosy by urine analysis, detailed biochemical investigations and renal histopathology. Of these 70 patients, 40 had lepromatous and 30 had non-lepromatous leprosy. Creatinine clearance was reduced in 20 patients. Renal biopsies were studied in 50 cases (25 lepromatous, 25 non-lepromatous); of which in 13 cases (10 lepromatous, 3 non-lepromatous) abnormal histopathological lesions were found by light microscopy. Amyloidosis was seen in only one lepromatous patient. No acid-fast bacilli and leproma like lesion were demonstrated in any case.