Schistosomiasis mansoni; clinical patterns
Rodriguez-Molina, R.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico 50(3): 83-89
1958
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-4849 PMID: 13535948 Document Number: 700064
As a result of 25 years' experience with clinical schistosomiasis in Puerto Rico, Rodriguez-Molina distinguishes three groups of cases: (i) a large group of asvmptomatic cases with positive stool tests; (ii) a smaller group of cases with gastro-intestinal symptoms, chiefly episodes of diarrhoea and abdominal pain with or without blood or mucus, or tenesmus; and (iii) a few cases of irreversible visceral disease giving rise to invalidism associated with liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension and hypersplenism, and in which uncontrollable haeina-temesfe from ruptured gastro-oesophageal varices is a frequent cause of death. Cases of acute schistosomiasis and of pulmonary hypertension were rare. G. I. Pozniak.