Orihuela-Chávez OE, Reyna-Figueroa J, Wakida-Kusunoki G, Limón-Rojas AE, Pasquel P, Nava-Jácome R

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Capillaria hepatica is a helminth that may cause an extremely rare condition of parasitic hepatitis. A little number of cases has been published. In Mexico, only 4 cases have been reported, three of them, in pediatric people.
We report here, one case, of a 19 months–old male from Veracruz, Mexico. With hepatic capillariasis who presented the characteristic triad of this type of infection: fever, hepatomegaly and eosinophilia. The diagnosis was made by liver biopsy. The response after a second treatment with albendazole was appropriate.

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