Schistosomiasis haematobia in Brazilian patients: clinical and renal functional evaluation with 99mTc-DTPA

• Published in: Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: J. D’Almeida, C. Maliska, P. M. Pellegrini, M. E. Penas, R. A. Collares, M. G. A. Cruz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SciELO 2007
• Subjects: Schistosomiasis; Schistosoma haematobium; renal radionuclide imaging; Brazilian patients; 99mTc-DTPA; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Toxicology. Poisons; RA1190-1270; Zoology; QL1-991; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-91992007000300010; https://doaj.org/article/c79298f417e345b787c54467dbdd70f3

The present study was carried out at the Army Central Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from September 2000 to December 2001, employing diethylenetriamine penta-acetic acid labeled with technetium-99m (99mTc-DTPA) to evaluate the renal function of nineteen symptomatic patients infected with S. haematobium during a peace mission in Mozambique. Results evidenced that the most frequent clinical manifestations were hematuria (68.4%) and low back pain (68.4%) and 73.7% patients had altered dynamic renal scintigraphy expressed by an increase in the excretory phase independently of the symptoms duration; furthermore, none of them had mechanical obstructive pattern. Schistosoma haematobium glomerulopathy could be considered a pathological finding without correlation with the disease clinical manifestations.