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Forghanparast K. CLINICOEPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF HUMAN FASCIOLIASIS IN GUILAN. JGUMS 1993; 2 (6 and 7) :4-11
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Following an outbreak of hypereosinophilia in 1988 in Guilan province of Iran (particularly in Bandar Anzali and Laheejhan) a clinicoepidemiological study on 2364 patients was carried out. All patients were clinically examined and routine hematological tests were performed. Samples of stool from 884 patients (convenient sampling) were parasitologically examined, using different methods speciallpy modified KATO (3 Samples for each patient during lodags). Ova of Fasciola sp. were found in %36.5 of the patients. In a more specified study the parasitological examinations for
Fasciola sp. was positive in %75 of the selected patients, who had a clinical history of more than 3 months and eosinophilia greater than %30.Detailed studies have shown that %79 of the patients were females and the infection was more frequent in 10-30 years old age group. The peak of the clinical disease was in spring 1989, which could be related to the consumption of raw local vegetables ( Mentha piperata Mentha aquatica, Nasturtium officinale , and Eryngium coerulesce) earlier in the winter. Different non- specific signs and symptoms were observed among which weight-loss, epigastric pain and sweating were chief complaints of more than %80 of the patients. myalgia, artreralgia, fever, pain of the right hypochondrium and anorexia were also of cosiderable occurrence (more than %70), cough and dyspnea were not uncommon (%57). In %66 of the patients leucocytosis in association with hypereosinophilia was observed. More than %90 of the patients had eosinophilia greater than %30 and %3 of them had eosinophilia still greater than %80. ESR was normal in only %2 and CRP was positive in %55 of the patients.
This is the first report of weight loss as a major clinical finding in human fascioliasis
Following an outbreak of hypereosinophilia in 1988 in Guilan province of Iran (particularly in Bandar Anzali and Laheejhan) a clinicoepidemiological study on 2364 patients was carried out. All patients were clinically examined and routine hematological tests were performed. Samples of stool from 884 patients (convenient sampling) were parasitologically examined, using different methods speciallpy modified KATO (3 Samples for each patient during lodags). Ova of Fasciola sp. were found in %36.5 of the patients. In a more specified study the parasitological examinations for
Fasciola sp. was positive in %75 of the selected patients, who had a clinical history of more than 3 months and eosinophilia greater than %30.Detailed studies have shown that %79 of the patients were females and the infection was more frequent in 10-30 years old age group. The peak of the clinical disease was in spring 1989, which could be related to the consumption of raw local vegetables ( Mentha piperata Mentha aquatica, Nasturtium officinale , and Eryngium coerulesce) earlier in the winter. Different non- specific signs and symptoms were observed among which weight-loss, epigastric pain and sweating were chief complaints of more than %80 of the patients. myalgia, artreralgia, fever, pain of the right hypochondrium and anorexia were also of cosiderable occurrence (more than %70), cough and dyspnea were not uncommon (%57). In %66 of the patients leucocytosis in association with hypereosinophilia was observed. More than %90 of the patients had eosinophilia greater than %30 and %3 of them had eosinophilia still greater than %80. ESR was normal in only %2 and CRP was positive in %55 of the patients.
This is the first report of weight loss as a major clinical finding in human fascioliasis
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