Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of cystic Echinococcosis in children from at a tertiary center in Peru [Características clínicas y epidemiológicas de Equinococosis quística en niños de un centro terciario en Perú]
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-05T12:48:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-05T12:48:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Cystic echinococcosis (CE) in children is a public health problem. To describe the clinical and epidemio-logical profile of CE, we reviewed the records of 55 children admitted to our institution with a confirmed diagnosis of CE between 2017-2019, analyzing demographic data, clinical manifestations, and treatment. Male sex was 61,8% (34/55), median age was 9,25+2,79 years; 16,4% had previous CE diagnosis, and 50,9% had contact with dogs. The median time of illness was 2 months. 65,5% had hepatic involvement, 56,4% had pulmonary involvement, and 21,8% had both hepatic and pulmonary involvement. The most frequent symptoms were abdominal pain (80,6%) and cough (80,6%). Surgical treatment was performed in 87,5% of hepatic CE and 100% of pulmonary CE and hepatic and pulmonary CE. Albendazole was prescribed in 100% of hepatic cases, in 73,7% of pulmonary cases, and 75% of both affections. No mortality was reported. © 2022, Instituto Nacional de Salud. All rights reserved. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 17264634 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35766742/ | es_PE |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.scielosp.org/article/rpmesp/2022.v39n1/65-69/en/ | es_PE |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://europepmc.org/article/MED/35766742 | es_PE |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2022.391.9830 | es_PE |
| dc.language.iso | spa | es_ES |
| dc.publisher | Instituto Nacional de Salud | es_ES |
| dc.source | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications; Vol. 567 | |
| dc.title | Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of cystic Echinococcosis in children from at a tertiary center in Peru [Características clínicas y epidemiológicas de Equinococosis quística en niños de un centro terciario en Perú] | es_ES |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
| dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |