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Seldom Differential of Dysuria in Northern America
Human schistosomiasis or bilharzia is a parasitic disease that highly impacts a country’s health and economic systems specifically when it affects individuals residing in underdeveloped countries. Daughter eggs produced by colonized Schistosoma can lead to multisystem immune-mediated response, one o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6890163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31827995 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6066 |
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author | Degheili, Jad A El-Asmar, Jose M Moussally, Moustafa Abou Heidar, Nassib El Hajj, Albert |
author_facet | Degheili, Jad A El-Asmar, Jose M Moussally, Moustafa Abou Heidar, Nassib El Hajj, Albert |
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description | Human schistosomiasis or bilharzia is a parasitic disease that highly impacts a country’s health and economic systems specifically when it affects individuals residing in underdeveloped countries. Daughter eggs produced by colonized Schistosoma can lead to multisystem immune-mediated response, one of them is an intravesicular granulomatous reaction leading to intramural lesions. Such outcome is directly related to the incubation of adult worms within the perivesical urogenital venous plexus. We hereby report an incidental discovery of calcified bladder wall lesions in a female patient residing in the United States for the last 27 years who presented with lower urinary tract symptoms. Despite a negative past medical history of schistosomiasis, intraoperative biopsies confirmed the presence of a calcified Schistosoma haematobium ova. Following that, a brief literature review of the pathogenesis and urogenital manifestations of Schistosoma is highlighted. |
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spelling | pubmed-68901632019-12-11 Seldom Differential of Dysuria in Northern America Degheili, Jad A El-Asmar, Jose M Moussally, Moustafa Abou Heidar, Nassib El Hajj, Albert Cureus Urology Human schistosomiasis or bilharzia is a parasitic disease that highly impacts a country’s health and economic systems specifically when it affects individuals residing in underdeveloped countries. Daughter eggs produced by colonized Schistosoma can lead to multisystem immune-mediated response, one of them is an intravesicular granulomatous reaction leading to intramural lesions. Such outcome is directly related to the incubation of adult worms within the perivesical urogenital venous plexus. We hereby report an incidental discovery of calcified bladder wall lesions in a female patient residing in the United States for the last 27 years who presented with lower urinary tract symptoms. Despite a negative past medical history of schistosomiasis, intraoperative biopsies confirmed the presence of a calcified Schistosoma haematobium ova. Following that, a brief literature review of the pathogenesis and urogenital manifestations of Schistosoma is highlighted. Cureus 2019-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6890163/ /pubmed/31827995 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6066 Text en Copyright © 2019, Degheili et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Urology Degheili, Jad A El-Asmar, Jose M Moussally, Moustafa Abou Heidar, Nassib El Hajj, Albert Seldom Differential of Dysuria in Northern America |
title | Seldom Differential of Dysuria in Northern America |
title_full | Seldom Differential of Dysuria in Northern America |
title_fullStr | Seldom Differential of Dysuria in Northern America |
title_full_unstemmed | Seldom Differential of Dysuria in Northern America |
title_short | Seldom Differential of Dysuria in Northern America |
title_sort | seldom differential of dysuria in northern america |
topic | Urology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6890163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31827995 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6066 |
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