Progressive alveolar echinococcosis after discontinuation of anthelmintic therapy

We report a case of a female patient with alveolar echinococcosis (AE) who presented with progressive pulmonary and hepatic lesions and had a fatal outcome. AE affecting the liver, the lungs and the brain had been diagnosed 20 years ago and treated successfully with albendazole and stereotactic gamm...

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Autores principales: Meilinger, Michael, Stoeckl, Christina, Pollheimer, Marion, Kern, Peter, Reisinger, Emil C, Seeber, Katharina, Krause, Robert, Flick, Holger, Hoenigl, Martin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24289745
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-287
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author Meilinger, Michael
Stoeckl, Christina
Pollheimer, Marion
Kern, Peter
Reisinger, Emil C
Seeber, Katharina
Krause, Robert
Flick, Holger
Hoenigl, Martin
author_facet Meilinger, Michael
Stoeckl, Christina
Pollheimer, Marion
Kern, Peter
Reisinger, Emil C
Seeber, Katharina
Krause, Robert
Flick, Holger
Hoenigl, Martin
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description We report a case of a female patient with alveolar echinococcosis (AE) who presented with progressive pulmonary and hepatic lesions and had a fatal outcome. AE affecting the liver, the lungs and the brain had been diagnosed 20 years ago and treated successfully with albendazole and stereotactic gamma knife therapy. Due to severe hair loss albendazole was stopped 14 years before presentation. Lesions had remained stable in imaging studies for at least 11 years, but then had started to progress. Lifelong anthelmintic maintenance therapy and regular follow-up may therefore be crucial in order to prevent such a dramatic clinical course.
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spelling pubmed-38498442013-12-05 Progressive alveolar echinococcosis after discontinuation of anthelmintic therapy Meilinger, Michael Stoeckl, Christina Pollheimer, Marion Kern, Peter Reisinger, Emil C Seeber, Katharina Krause, Robert Flick, Holger Hoenigl, Martin Parasit Vectors Letter to the Editor We report a case of a female patient with alveolar echinococcosis (AE) who presented with progressive pulmonary and hepatic lesions and had a fatal outcome. AE affecting the liver, the lungs and the brain had been diagnosed 20 years ago and treated successfully with albendazole and stereotactic gamma knife therapy. Due to severe hair loss albendazole was stopped 14 years before presentation. Lesions had remained stable in imaging studies for at least 11 years, but then had started to progress. Lifelong anthelmintic maintenance therapy and regular follow-up may therefore be crucial in order to prevent such a dramatic clinical course. BioMed Central 2013-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3849844/ /pubmed/24289745 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-287 Text en Copyright © 2013 Meilinger et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kern, Peter
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Seeber, Katharina
Krause, Robert
Flick, Holger
Hoenigl, Martin
Progressive alveolar echinococcosis after discontinuation of anthelmintic therapy
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title_full Progressive alveolar echinococcosis after discontinuation of anthelmintic therapy
title_fullStr Progressive alveolar echinococcosis after discontinuation of anthelmintic therapy
title_full_unstemmed Progressive alveolar echinococcosis after discontinuation of anthelmintic therapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24289745
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-287
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