SINGLE CHAMBER (HYDATID) ECHINOCOCCOSIS

Abstract

The unilocular echinococcosis (hydatid disease)is the severe chronic parasitic disease, helminthiasis caused by the larval stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus, characterized by the development of parasitic cysts in the liver, rarely in the lungs and in other organs and tissues. The etiology of the disease, characterized by the pathogen and its development cycle, final and intermediate hosts, structure and morphology of the hydatid cyst. They describe the geographic distribution of helminth infections, pathogenesis, immunity, clinical picture, echinococcosis of the liver (asymptomatic, uncomplicated stage and stage of complications), echinococcosis of the lungs (the initial stage and the stage of developed clinical picture), other bodies. Clinical observation of unilocular echinococcosis in a 10 year old girl and a 9 year old boy. Diagnosis includes epidemiological, anamnestic and clinical data, changes in laboratory parameters, instrumental methods, diagnostic methods, immunodiagnostics, parasitological diagnosis. The surgery remains the main method of treatment. They described pharmacological therapy with albendazole in combination with a surgical method and as an involuntary self-treatment. A detailed clinical examination of patients after treatment, epidemiology of helminth infections and the major modern preventive measures.