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- Title:
- Invasive enteritis by Strongyloides stercoralis presenting as acute abdominal distress under corticosteroid therapy.
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- 0041-8781
- Overwhelming helminthiasis is still a problem in endemic areas, especially in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of invasive intestinal strongyloidiasis that was clinically expressed as acute abdominal distress in a 73-year-old man from São Paulo who had been receiving methylprednisone, 20 mg/day, for one year for osteoarthritis. A surgical specimen from the ileum revealed invasive enteritis with severe infestation by Strongyloides stercoralis. The patient died of sepsis 6 days after surgery. The possibility of invasive strongyloidiasis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of acute abdominal distress in patients undergoing immunosuppressive therapy.
- 1-Jul-2001
- Revista do Hospital das Clinicas de Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, v. 56, n. 4, p. 103-106, 2001.
- 103-106
- glucocorticoid
- methylprednisolone
- acute abdomen
- aged
- case report
- enteritis
- fatality
- human
- male
- osteoarthritis
- parasitology
- pathology
- strongyloidiasis
- Abdomen, Acute
- Aged
- Enteritis
- Fatal Outcome
- Glucocorticoids
- Humans
- Male
- Methylprednisolone
- Osteoarthritis
- Strongyloidiasis
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0041-87812001000400002
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- http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/66540
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