Bowel X-ray alterations in acute human schistosomiasis

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Enio Roberto Pietra Pedroso, José Roberto Lambertucci, Manoel Otávio da Costa Rocha, Dirceu Bartolomeu Greco, Cid Sérgio Ferreira, Roberto Sena Rocha, Naftale Katz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1987
• Subjects: Schistosoma mansoni; Esquistossomose toxêmica aguda; Alterações radiológicas intestinais; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Aguda; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86821987000300006; https://doaj.org/article/a4204ae5833b4048aae8781df3b4dd07

A radiological study of the small intestine of 17 untreated patients in the acute phase ofschistosomiasis was performed. Twelve patients (70% of total) had alterations: nine had clear-cut thickening of the duodenal and jejunal folds, one flocculation, one fragmentation and one thickening of mucosae, flocculation and fragmentation of the barium column. There was no correlation of the gastrointestinal symptomatology (vomiting, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatomegaly) neither with the parasitological load nor with the x-ray alterations.