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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 65(3), 2001, pp. 204-207
Copyright © 2001 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 65, Issue 3, 204-207
Copyright © 2001 by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Lymphatic filariasis in children: adenopathy and its evolution in two young girls

G Dreyer, J Figueredo-Silva, K Carvalho, F Amaral, and EA Ottesen

Lymphatic filariasis is a widespread infectious disease of children in endemic areas, but little is known about the early lymphatic damage in children and its evolution, either with or without treatment. Two girls (ages 6 and 12 years) from a Wuchereria bancrofti endemic region of Brazil presented with chronic inguinal adenopathy. Neither had microfilaremia. By ultrasound both were shown to have living adult worms in their enlarged inguinal nodes and had occult local lymphatic damage (lymphangiectasis). One girl spontaneously developed acute adenitis in the affected node prior to any intervention; this adenitis resolved within 10 days and was associated with the progressive disappearance over 45-90 days of all local abnormalities detectable by ultrasound. In the other child, after treatment with a single dose of diethylcarbamazine (DEC), the same clinical picture of transient adenitis and resolving abnormalities (detectable by ultrasound) occurred. These findings demonstrated filariasis as the cause of adenopathy in children, and also both spontaneous and treatment-induced worm-death, with subsequent reversal of lymphatic abnormalities.


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