[Influence of preventive surgery intervention on life quality of patients with advanced schistosomiasis].

Objective: To investigate the influence of preventive pericardial devascularization on the life quality of patients with advanced schistosomiasis.

Methods: The clinical data of advanced schistosomiasis patients who received the preventive pericardial devascularization from January 2000 to December 2009 (140 cases) were collected and analyzed retrospectively, and other 81 cases without preventive pericardial devascularization served as controls. Results Compared with that of the control group, the long term upper gastrointestinal rebleeding within 3 years of the study group was much fewer (P < 0.

[Temperature recrudescence caused by praziquantel treatment after falling to normal automatically in acute schistosomiasis patients: a report of 19 cases].

Nineteen cases of acute schistosomiasis patients whose temperatures had fallen to normal automatically were treated with praziquantel, and their temperatures recrudesced after the treatment. Then they were treated with larger dose of praziquantel according to the scheme of acute schistosomiasis therapy, and all of them were cured.