Nine-year progression of amoebal rectitis

Rey, P.; Carrere, C.; Perret, J-Luc.

Presse Medicale 32(27): 1276

2003


ISSN/ISBN: 0755-4982
PMID: 14506451
Document Number: 553089
A case is reported in a 32-year-old man from France, with a history of giardiasis successfully treated with metronidazole in 1991, who presented in 2002 with a nine year history of digestive symptoms including hypogastric pain and diarrhoea. A rectosigmoidoscopy demonstrated erythemato-congestive rectal mucus and superficial ulcerations. Examination of a biopsy sample of ulcerated rectal tissue demonstrated trophozoites. The patient was successfully treated with metronidazole (1.5 g/day for 10 days).

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