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. 1979 Feb 3;109(5):148-51.

[Chemotherapy of human echinococcosis with mebendazole (Vermox): preliminary clinical results]

[Article in German]
  • PMID: 441721

[Chemotherapy of human echinococcosis with mebendazole (Vermox): preliminary clinical results]

[Article in German]
R Ammann et al. Schweiz Med Wochenschr. .

Abstract

Two patients with inoperable multiple Echinococcus granulosus infections involving the lungs and the liver (one patient) were treated with the following daily doses of mebendazole (Vermox): 3 days 1000 mg, 3 days 1500 mg, the following 3 months 30-40 mg/kg body weight. One of the patients had been treated before with mebendazole in similar doses for 3 periods of 5-6 weeks each. The patients received the drug as 500 mg tablets divided into 3 daily doses after meals. After termination of treatment a distinct regression of lung cysts was demonstrable in both patients, with the exception of one cyst. The liver cyst in one of the patients had also decreased in size. About 8 months after therapy signs of reactivation of lung cysts were observed in one patient, and a new course of mebendazole treatment was therefore started.

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