Adult Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis: report of 12 cases
Sebahoun, G.; Imbert, C.; Sainty, D.; Carcassonne, Y.
Annales de Medecine Interne 131(2): 75-77
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-410X PMID: 7396324 Document Number: 159969
Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis is not only a children disease. We observed 12 adult cases since 1971. Clinical presentation usually associates anarchic fever and splenomegaly, with anaemia, leucopenia, increased sedimentation rate and hypergammaglobulinemia. We must think to kala-azar, specially after a stay in an endemic country (mediterranean area), ask for parasites on bone-marrow smears and more often immunological diagnosis. Spontaneously fatal, the disease is easily cured by antimony derivatives.