The First Case of Basal Cell Carcinoma in the Scar Fifty Years after Leishmanization.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a self-curing skin infection distributed in tropics and sub-tropics. Up to one million cases of CL appeared in endemic areas a year. Leishmanization (artificially controlled infections) was widely used to control cutaneous leishmaniasis in the past.

Clinical tolerance and efficacy of anti-parasitic treatment with albendazole in patients with alveolar echinococcosis: long-term follow-up observation in 117 patients.

Alveolar echinococcosis is the most severe worm disease primarily detected in the liver. This study aimed to determine the clinical tolerance and efficacy of albendazole in patients with alveolar echinococcosis, depending on the volume of previous surgical treatment or its absence and the duration of anti-parasitic therapy. We retrospectively (over the last 15 years) analyzed the data of 117 patients, who were divided into 4 groups according to curability: R (radical resection), R (incomplete resection), N (unresectable), and R (recurrence).

The importance of uninterrupted albendazole treatment in patients with unresectable alveolar echinococcosis undergoing liver transplantation.

Background: This study focused on the monitoring of patients who had undergone liver transplantation (LT) because of unresectable alveolar echinococcosis (AE). The role of long-term administration of albendazole (ABZ) in patients with residual/recurrent AE lesions and without AE lesions was evaluated.

Methods: Albendazole therapy was prescribed to patients diagnosed with AE 4-6 weeks after LT on the background of continuous suppressive therapy while following the protocol for managing patients after LT.

[(THE CURRENT SITUATION OF DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE)].

The paper analyzes the etiology of diphyllobothriasis pathogens and their distribution in the world. It estimates the infection rate of the population with tapeworms, the value of different fish species and procedures for their cooking as factors for transmission of Diphyllobothrium to the population and the risk for infection with tapeworms through infected foods. Epidemiological surveillance measures in different (synanthropic and natural) foci of diphyllobothriasis and with various types of pathogens are considered.

[EXPERIENCE IN TREATING HELMINTHISM WITH MICRONIZED ALBENDAZOLE (GELMODOL)].

The paper gives the results of treatment with micronized albendazole (Gelmodol-BM, World Medicine, UK) in 87 patients of the Department of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Diseases, Clinical and Diagnostic Center, Clinical Center, I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.