Трансплантология (Москва) (Aug 2018)

Echinococcosis: diagnosis and current treatment options

  • A. N. Lotov,
  • A. V. Chzhao,
  • N. R. Chernaya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.23873/2074-0506-2010-0-2-18-26
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 2
pp. 18 – 26

Abstract

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Echinococcosis also remains a serious problem today. Highly informative diagnostic methods allow hepatic echinococcosis to be diagnosed at its early stage. This brings mini-invasive, saving operations under ultrasound, X-ray, TV, and endoscopic guidance up to a new level. The accumulated experience suggests that the current high-tech operations that are an alternative to traditional access surgery can be extensively used. However, only strict observance of a protocol for saving operations, their performance in specialized hospitals, and compulsory antiparasitic therapy with albendazole will be of benefit to mini-invasive surgery for hepatic echinococcosis.

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