Mirazid alone or combined with Paromomycin in treating cryptosporidiosis parvum in immunocompetent hospitalized patients.

Sixty cryptosporidiosis patients from Mansoura University Hospitals, 36 males and 24 females, with age from few months to ten years (mean age 6.1) were divided into three cross-matched groups of 20 patients each. All patients received the glutamine-based oral rehydration solution with 111 mmol/l glutamine, 20 mg zinc acetate once a day and vitamin A supplementation (200,000 IU) once a day for 2 weeks.

Radio-immuno assay estimation of plasma endothelin levels in patients with bilharzial and post viral liver cirrhosis: a possible new additive factor in aggravation of portal hypertension.

Radio immunoassay estimation of plasma endothelin level was carried out in 90 patients with bilharzial and post viral chronic liver diseases with portal hypertension associated with bleeding and non bleeding oesophageal varices as well as 10 normal control subjects. It was found that plasma endothelin level was significantly elevated in such patients when compared to normal controls. Moreover, there was a positive correlation between the elevated levels of plasma endothelin and portal vein diameter as well as bleeding oesophageal varices.

Risk of hepatitis "E" virus infection among some schistosomiasis patients in Egypt.

This study was carried out to demonstrate hepatitis "E" virus antibodies (IgG) among individuals living in different rural areas. The study included 200 individuals. One hundred were suffering from S.