Abstract

GUZMAN, Francisco et al. Síndrome diarreico crónico debido a infección por hymenolepis diminuta: Reporte de un caso. Gen [online]. 2009, vol.63, n.2, pp.119-120. ISSN 0016-3503.

The parasitic infection of the small bowel produced by cestodos acquaintances like diminuta Hymenolepis or "tape-worm of the mouse" is exceptional. Several coprozoic arthropods serve as intermediary guests. The ingestion of the intermediary parasitized inn-keepers produces the infection in the definitive inn-keeper and, accidental, in the man, where the infection is accepted well, without a clinical specific picture, appearing as diarrhea, abdominal diffuse pain and other unspecific manifestations. A 50-year-old masculine patient with mental delay was taken to our center, who presented multiple diarrheic evacuations with snot and without blood, anorexia, loss of weight and fever of a month of evolution, by which it is deposited. During his hospitalization, videocolonoscopy is realized progressing up to blind person, being found abundant helmintos in all its distance. Samples are taken for Biopsy, which demonstrate mature and immature forms of Hymenolepis Diminuta. Later to treatment with Praziquatel, the patient is discharged, for satisfactory evolution.

Keywords : parasitic Colitis; Hymenolepis Diminuta; Chronic Diarrheic Syndrome.