Alveolar echinococcosis
Pitfalls in diagnosis and treatment of alveolar echinococcosis: a sentinel case series
... and alveolar echinococcosis ...cystic echinococcosis, have speci fi c radiological features, whereas biliary cystadenoma, biliary cystadenocarcinoma and alveolar echinococcosis represent ...
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Original Article Clinical application of color Doppler flow imaging in prediction of postoperative complications in patients with end-stage hepatic alveolar echinococcosis undergoing autologous liver transplantation: a review of the literature and case reports
... Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis (HAE) is a rare parasitic infection caused by the zoonotic agent Echinococcus multilocularis [1, 2]. It has been reported that the disease is epidemic in some parts of the ...
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Alveolar Echinococcosis: Characterization of Diagnostic Antigen Em18 and Serological Evaluation of Recombinant Em18
... Alveolar echinococcosis (AE), caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus multilocularis, is a serious parasitic disease of humans in Northern hemisphere countries in the higher lati- ...
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Primary extrahepatic alveolar echinococcosis of the lumbar spine and the psoas muscle
... Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) of human being caused by Echinococcus multilocularis is a rare but important zoonosis especially in tempered zones of middle Europe and Northern America with endemic character ...
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Serological Monitoring of Progression of Alveolar Echinococcosis with Multiorgan Involvement by Use of Recombinant Em18
... Alveolar echinococcosis (AE), caused by the fox tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis, is one of the neglected, emerging, or reemerging infectious diseases listed by WHO with cystic- ercosis, rabies, ...
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Immunoglobulin G Subclass Responses to Recombinant Em18 in the Follow-Up of Patients with Alveolar Echinococcosis in Different Clinical Stages
... In this study, we compared the sequential responses of immunoglobulin G (IgG) subclasses to the diagnostic antigen Em18 in sera from patients with alveolar echinococcosis. A total of 225 sera from 36 ...
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Original Article Metastatic and prognostic factors in patients with alveolar echinococcosis
... Alveolar echinococcosis disease spreading in the majority of the northern hemisphere [1] has a considerable impact on major public health in rural ...cystic echinococcosis (CE), AE is characterized ...
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Dogs as victims of their own worms: Serodiagnosis of canine alveolar echinococcosis
... Background: Besides acting as definitive hosts for Echinococcus multilocularis, dogs can become infected by the larval form of this parasite and thereby develop life-threatening alveolar echinococcosis ...
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An Echinococcus multilocularis Antigen B3 Proteoform That Shows Specific Antibody Responses to Active Stage Alveolar Echinococcosis
... Alveolar echinococcosis (AE), caused by the Echinococcus multilocularis metacestode, represents one of the most frequently fatal zoonoses. Early diagnosis significantly reduces morbidity and mortality ...
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Deciphering the metabolic perturbation in hepatic alveolar echinococcosis: a 1H NMR based metabolomics study
... AE: alveolar echinococcosis; AUC : area under the curve; BCAA : branched‑chain amino acids; BCKDC: branched‑chain α‑keto acid dehydrogenase complex; CE: cystic echinococcosis; CNS: central nervous ...
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Specific IgG Responses to Recombinant Antigen B and Em18 in Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis in China
... of echinococcosis by acciden- tal ingestion of eggs excreted with feces of carnivores harbor- ing the adult worms of Echinococcus ...where echinococcosis is ...cystic echinococcosis (CE) and ...
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Alveolar echinococcosis of the right adrenal gland: a case report and review of the literature
... lar echinococcosis were larger than 5 cm at diagnosis so that an adrenalectomy was ...of alveolar echinococcosis in the adrenal gland was made postoperatively by the ...
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Disseminated alveolar echinococcosis resembling metastatic malignancy: a case report
... Humans are aberrant intermediate hosts who become infected by ingestion of egg-contaminated food or water or via physical contact with domestic or wild animals that carry the parasite in their small intestine. In humans, ...
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30-yr course and favorable outcome of alveolar echinococcosis despite multiple metastatic organ involvement in a non-immune suppressed patient
... of alveolar echinococcosis, with a lung lesion at presentation followed by the discovery of a liver lesion, both removed by ...severe alveolar echinococcosis; it may thus be hypothesized that ...
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Original Article A study on the tissue infiltration mechanism of 18 F-FDG PET/CT in determining biological boundaries of hepatic alveolar echinococcosis
... ing the biological boundary of hepatic alveolar echinococcosis (HAE). Methods: A total of 129 HAE patients were selected from the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University and included into ...
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Evaluation of an Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) with Affinity Purified Em18 and an ELISA with Recombinant Em18 for Differential Diagnosis of Alveolar Echinococcosis: Results of a Blind Test
... Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is the most potentially lethal parasitic zoonosis of the nontropical areas in the northern hemisphere, where cystic echinococcosis (CE) is also ...of ...
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Evaluation of a Commercial Echinococcus Western Blot Assay for Serological Follow-Up of Patients with Alveolar Echinococcosis
... with alveolar echinococcosis in different clinical stages according to the WHO-PNM staging system (P, parasitic mass in the liver; N, involvement of neighboring organs; M, metastasis) were followed up ...
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Good outcome following liver transplantation using pericardial-peritoneum window for hepato-atrial anastomosis to overcome advanced hepatic alveolar echinococcosis and secondary Budd-Chiari Syndrome - a case report
... Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis (HAE) is a parasitic dis- ease that develops slowly. Very often, the first symptoms manifest, as in our case of E. multilocularis (Fig. 3b), at a very advanced, mature stage. ...
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Landscape composition and spatial prediction of alveolar echinococcosis in Southern Ningxia, China
... Serological prevalence of echinococcosis and risk factors for infection amongst children in rural communities of southern Ningxia, China.. Tropical Medicine and International Health, In [r] ...
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Serological differentiation between cystic and alveolar echinococcosis by use of recombinant larval antigens
... A sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with monoclonal antibodies against EM10 and EG55 as capture reagents for the recombinant antigens was established and was evaluated with 74 s[r] ...
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