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2001
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2001.65.204
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Lymphatic filariasis in children: adenopathy and its evolution in two young girls.

Abstract: Abstract. 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 (lymphangiectasi… Show more

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“…With evidence now available that the MDA treatment regimens for LF can halt, or even reverse, the progression of subclinical to overt disease [19],[24],[25], it is clear that those already infected but having no overt disease also benefit directly from the yearly MDAs. To quantify this benefit requires understanding the number of individuals treated during the MDAs, the proportion of these individuals with subclinical LF disease, the number who would have progressed to each of the manifestations of LF disease and the ‘disability weights’ for each of these manifestations.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With evidence now available that the MDA treatment regimens for LF can halt, or even reverse, the progression of subclinical to overt disease [19],[24],[25], it is clear that those already infected but having no overt disease also benefit directly from the yearly MDAs. To quantify this benefit requires understanding the number of individuals treated during the MDAs, the proportion of these individuals with subclinical LF disease, the number who would have progressed to each of the manifestations of LF disease and the ‘disability weights’ for each of these manifestations.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cold compresses, rest, and analgesics are recommended. Treatment with antifilarial drugs during acute inflammatory episodes used to be recommended, but now is not considered indicated [27,36,91]. …”
Section: Acute Inflammatory Episodes (Acute Attacks)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nas áreas endêmicas é de se esperar que, logo na primeira infância, os indivíduos sejam expostos às larvas infectantes. A linfadenopatia indolor (sem linfedema ipsilateral) parece ser a forma predominante da expressão clínica da doença em crianças e adolescentes 24,31,32 . Assim, na população endêmica, o linfonodo periférico seria a primeira estação de parada e de "estabelecimento do acordo imunológico para a sobrevivência 14 .…”
Section: O Diagnóstico E As Complicaçõesunclassified