Observations on clinical efficacy of albendazole emulsion in 264 cases of hepatic cystic echinococcosis.

Two regimens of albendazole emulsion (AbzE), a novel formulation, were used in the treatment of 264 cases of hepatic cystic echinococcosis. AbzE 10 mg/kg per day (calculated by albendazole base) was administered orally to 71 cases for 6 months to over 1 year. Imaging evaluation at the end of courses showed overall efficacy in 97.

[Dynamic observation on ultrasonographic image during chemotherapy of hepatic cystic echinococcosis and a proposal for ultrasonic classification].

Objective: To submit a proposal for the classification of ultrasonographic image in patients with hepatic cystic echinococcosis, on the basis of characteristic and distribution of ultrasonic image of hydatid cysts in cases and systematic observation on dynamic changes of sonographic image under treatment with emulsion albendazole and in relation to clinical efficacy.

Methods: The ultrasonic image of 645 cysts in 497 cases with liver cystic echinococcosis was classified. The distribution of different types of image in patients was analyzed.

[Evaluation of diagnostic value of 18 kDa antigen in alveolar echinococcosis].

Aim: To evaluate the 18 kDa antigen in diagnosis of human alveolar echinococcosis.

Methods: A total of 214 sera from patients with alveolar echinococcosis (AE, 33), cystic echinococcosis (CE, 69), cysticercosis (30) and healthy controls (82) were examined by Western blotting to detect the antibodies against 18 kDa antigen using both antigens from protoscoleces of E. granulosus (Eg) and E.

[Comparative observation on experimental infection with Echinococcus multilocularis in Cricetulus Migratorius and Meriones meridianus].

Aim: To search for an animal model with higher susceptibility to Echinococcus multilocularis and shorter experimental period.

Methods: Cricetulus migratorius, Meriones meridianus and NIH mice were experimentally infected with protoscolices of E. multilocularis and were autopsed at different times after their infection.

Diagnosis and classification of hepatic echinococcosis by ultrasonography.

Objective: To make an early and correct diagnosis of hepatic echinococcosis.

Methods: A total of 1092 patients with hepatic echinococcosis underwent operation in our hospital between 1984 and 1995. Of these patients, 427 (39.

Epidemiological studies on cystic echinococcosis in China--a review.

In the four decades from 1951 to 1990, the six provinces or autonomous regions (Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xizang and Nei Monggol) reported a total of 26,065 surgical cases of hydatid disease, most of which were reported in the recent decade. About one third of the patients was children and adolescents under 15 years old. So far, cystic hydatid infections of local origin have been confirmed in 22 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the whole nation.

Progress in surgical treatment of hydatid diseases in China. A clinical analysis of 22,005 surgical cases.

Altogether 27,716 cystic hydatid cases and 445 alveolar hydatid cases clinically diagnosed and surgically treated in China were retrospectively studied. In accordance with the parasitic sites of the hydatid cysts and the various pathological types, different surgical procedures were adopted. In an attempt to prevent intraoperative accidents and postoperative complications, continued improvements in operational techniques have been made.