[Retrospective clinical and laboratory study of the toxocariasis cases hospitalised between 2005 and 2008]

Abstract

The authors present the results of retroprospective clinical and laboratory diagnosis on toxocariasis cases hospitalized in the Paediatric Diseases Clinic of Iaşi, between January 2005-June 2008.

Material and method: The study included a number of 228 children.

Results: The most frequent clinical manifestation was pulmonary symptoms 80.70%: dyspneea, wheesing, asthma, cough, interstitial pneumonitis. The most frequent digestive symptoms were abdominal pain 41.22%, hepatosplenomegaly 29.38%; cutaneous manifestations were pruritus and urticaria. The laboratory diagnosis: hypereosinophilia was present at 94.73% childrens associated with hyperleucocytosis and hyper-gammaglobulinemia. All the patients were serologic confirmed with toxocariasis. The children responded well to treatment with albendazole.