Alveolar echinococcosis (alveolar echinococcosis, multilocular echinococcosis, Latin alveococcosis, English alveococcus disease) is a zoonotic chronic helminthiasis, which is characterized by the development of cystic formations in the liver, capable of infiltrative growth and metastasis to other organs.
Antiparasitic treatment of hydatid echinococcosis is carried out with albendazole orally after meals at 10 mg / kg (no more than 800 mg per day) in two doses, a course of 28 days, intervals between courses of at least 2 weeks. The duration of treatment for clinically expressed forms of invasion (the presence of cysts) is 12-18 months. Treatment of hydatid echinococcosis is carried out with normal laboratory parameters (clinical and biochemical blood tests), during the treatment every 5-7 days a control blood test is carried out
Clinical manifestations (tumor-like, slowly growing formation in the liver, lungs or other organs) and epidemiological data allow us to suspect echinococcosis.
Typical symptoms of hydatid echinococcosis of the liver in uncomplicated cases are decreased performance, general weakness, dyspeptic disorders, headaches, and sometimes allergic reactions: skin rashes, itching, and eosinophilia in the blood.
The causative agent of hydatid echinococcosis Echinococcus granulosus belongs to the type Plathelminthes. class Cestoda. family Taeniidae. Mature E. granulosus is a white tapeworm 3-5 mm long. It consists of a head with four suckers and a double crown of hooks, a neck and 2-6 segments. The last segment is filled with a uterus containing eggs (oncospheres), which have invasive ability and do not need to mature in the environment.
Echinococcosis is a chronic biohelminthiasis caused by parasitism of humans by cestodes of the genus Echinococcus. Hydatid echinococcosis (single-chamber echinococcosis, cystic echinococcosis, lat. echinococcosis, eng. echinococcus disease) is a chronic zoonotic biohelminthiasis with a fecal-oral mechanism of transmission of the pathogen, characterized by the formation of parasitic cysts in the liver, less often in the lungs and other organs.
Cysticercosis (Latin: cysticercosis) is a chronic biohelminthiasis caused by the larval stage of the pork tapeworm - cysticercus (Finns). The causative agent of cysticercosis - Cysticercus cellulosae (larval stage of Taenia solium) is a formation in the form of a bubble with a diameter of 5-15 mm, containing an inverted scolex.
Teniosis (Latin name - taeniosis; English - taeniasis) is a biohelminthiasis caused by the parasitism of the pork tapeworm in the human intestine and manifested by a disruption of the gastrointestinal tract.
Taeniarhynchosis (Latin: taeniarhynchosis) is a helminthiasis from the group of cestodiasis caused by Taeniarhynchus saginatus (beef tapeworm) or Taeniarhynchus confusum and characterized by the development of dyspeptic symptoms. A person becomes infected by eating beef containing the larvae of the pathogen and not having undergone sufficient heat treatment.
Diphyllobothriasis (Latin: diphyllobothriosis: English: diphyllobothriasis, fish tapeworm infection) is an intestinal helminthiasis caused by tapeworms. It is characterized by a chronic course with predominant disruption of the gastrointestinal tract and the development of megaloblastic anemia.
