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

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	D’Almeida,J., Maliska,C., Pellegrini,P. M., Penas,M. E., Collares,R. A., Cruz,M. G. A.
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Centro de Estudos de Venenos e Animais Peçonhentos (CEVAP/UNESP) 2007
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992007000300010
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