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Humans , Male , Female , Infant , Breast Feeding/statistics & numerical data , Infant Nutrition , Infant FoodSubject(s)
Breast Feeding/statistics & numerical data , Adolescent , Adult , Brazil , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Humans , Young AdultABSTRACT
O presente estudo teve como objetivos avaliar a prevalência de cisticercose, classificar as etapas evolutivas dos cisticercos encontrados nos encéfalos e coraçöes humanos, diferenciá-las de acordo com os aspectos macro e microscópicos dos processos patológicos gerais e comparar os processos encontrados nos encéfalos e coraçöes. Foram revisados protocolos de autópsias realizadas no Hospital Escola da Faculdade de Medicina do Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brasil, no período de 1970 a 2000. Verificou-se a prevalência da cisticercose em 71 casos, sendo 18 (25,4 por cento) de cisticercose cardíaca e 53 (74,6 por cento) de encefálica. Foram analisados 19 cisticercos, sendo 9 de encéfalos e 10 de coraçöes. Os cisticercos foram classificados, de acordo com sua fase evolutiva, em etapas: vesicular, vesicular coloidal, granular nodular e nodular calcificada, com similaridade entre os diagnósticos macro e microscópico. Entre os processos patológicos destacaram-se a beta-fibrilose e a fibroelastose endocárdica. Adicionalmente, demonstrou-se que a classificaçäo pode ser aplicada tanto na cisticercose encefálica como na cardíaca
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Animals , Humans , Cardiomyopathies/parasitology , Cysticercosis/parasitology , Cysticercus/growth & development , Brazil/epidemiology , Cadaver , Cardiomyopathies/epidemiology , Cardiomyopathies/pathology , Cysticercosis/epidemiology , Cysticercosis/pathology , Neurocysticercosis/epidemiology , Neurocysticercosis/parasitology , Neurocysticercosis/pathology , PrevalenceABSTRACT
The present study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of cysticercosis, to classify the developmental phases of cysticerci found in human brains and hearts, and differentiate these according to the macro and microscopic aspects of the general pathological processes, and to compare the process found in the brains and hearts. Protocols from autopsies performed at the Hospital of the School of Medicine of the Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil, in the period from 1970 to 2000 were reviewed. The prevalence of cysticercosis was verified in 71 cases, of which 53 (74.6%) were encephalic cysticercosis and 18 (25.3%) cardiac cysticercosis. Nineteen cysticerci were analyzed, from 9 brains and 10 hearts. The cysticerci were classified according to their developmental stage: vesicular, colloidal vesicular, granular nodular and calcified nodular, with similarities between the macroscopic and microscopic diagnoses. Among the pathological processes found beta-fibrilosis and endocardial fibroelastosis are underscored. In addition, it was demonstrated that this classification may be applied both to encephalic and cardiac cysticercosis.
