The assessment of the clinical status of patients with alveolar hydatid disease by using statistical processing methods. 2. the correlation of laboratory tests at different disease stages and their clinical interpretation
Tumol'skaia, N.I.; Kakliugina, M.L.; Tumol'skaia, T.V.
Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 5: 7-10
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326 PMID: 1758369 Document Number: 386353
In 44 patients with alveolar echinococcosis, the correlation between the results of main laboratory tests were studied and their clinical interpretation was given. It was shown that at an uncomplicated stage of the disease, the immune response suppressing the helminth growth plays the main role; at the stage of complications the pathogenetic significance of non-specific inflammatory responses caused by destructive processes increases; at a stage of decompensation the correlation reflects severe immunological abnormalities and progressive immunodepression. The obtained correlations might be used as a measure for determining the stage of the disease in the algorithmic method for the classification of alveolar echinococcosis.