ReviewParasitology research2016
Ultrasonography of gallbladder abnormalities due to schistosomiasis.
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- Schistosoma japonicum infection: clinical significance of ultrasound findings.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2026Review
- The Basel ultrasonography protocol for assessing hepatosplenic pathologies in Asian schistosomiasis: report of a WHO expert meeting.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2025Article
- WFUMB Review Paper. Incidental Findings in Otherwise Healthy Subjects, How to Manage: Liver.Cancers · 2024Review
- Gallbladder schistosomiasis.Autopsy & case reports · 2024Article
- Rare presentation of gallbladder schistosomiasis: a case report.The Journal of international medical research · 2023Article
- Usefulness of ultrasound in sub-Saharan patients with a serological diagnosis of schistosomiasis.Infection · 2021Article
- Anatomical MRI and [Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Gallbladder schistosomiasis - a rare presentation as gallbladder polyp: a case report.Radiology case reports · 2020Article
- Review of Dancing Parasites in Lymphatic Filariasis.Ultrasound international open · 2019Review
- Ultrasound and Cystic Echinococcosis.Ultrasound international open · 2018Review
- Transmission of Opisthorchis viverrini, Schistosoma mekongi and soil-transmitted helminthes on the Mekong Islands, Southern Lao PDR.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2017Article
- Assessment of the effect of treatment and assistance program on advanced patients with schistosomiasis japonica in China from 2009 to 2014.Parasitology research · 2016Article
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13 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
After malaria, schistosomiasis remains the most important tropical parasitic disease in large parts of the world. Schistosomiasis has recently re-emerged in Southern Europe. Intestinal schistosomiasis is caused by most Schistosoma (S.) spp. pathogenic to humans and leads to chronic inflammation and fibrosis of the colon as well as to liver fibrosis. Gallbladder abnormalities usually occur in patients with advanced hepatic portal fibrosis due to Schistosoma mansoni infection. Occasionally, gallbladder abnormalities have been seen also in children and occurring without associated overt liver abnormalities.The specific S. mansoni-induced gallbladder abnormalities detectable by ultrasound include typical hyperechogenic wall thickening with external gallbladder wall protuberances. The luminal wall surface is smooth. The condition is usually clinically silent although some cases of symptomatic cholecystitis have been described. The ultrasonographic Murphy response is negative. Gallbladder contractility is impaired but sludge and calculi occur rarely. Contrary to other trematodes such as liver flukes, S. mansoni does not obstruct the biliary tract. Advanced gallbladder fibrosis is unlikely to reverse after therapy.
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