ABSTRACT
Se estudian 173 pacientes con sindrome gastritico, en los cuales los hallazgos clinicos mas frecuentes son el ardor y/o dolor epigastricos, la plenitud post-prandial y las nauseas. Excepcionalmente se encontro anemia y en mas de la mitad de los casos la endoscopia no demostro lesiones organicas que explicaram el sindrome clinico. El grupo sanguineo no tiene relacion estadistica significativa con el sindrome y la parasitosis intestinal, aunque fue un hallazgo frecuente, no representa importancia etiologica
Subject(s)
Child , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Humans , Male , Female , Gastritis , Rural Population , Stomach Diseases , Costa RicaSubject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Child, Preschool , Child , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Aged , Costa Rica , Methods , Filariasis/diagnosis , Filariasis/epidemiology , Filariasis/bloodABSTRACT
One hundred and nineteen people living in the Roosevelt county of Puerto Limón were submitted to the Knott technique for diagnosing microfilaremia bancrofti. This was the first time the technique was applied in Costa Rica. A 17.6% positivity was obtained. Some considerations on filariasis spreading to other regions of the country with the possibility of outbreaks of tropical eosinophilia or filariasis without microfilaremia are made.