TH13 HYDATID DISEASE Flashcards
DEFINE HYDATID DISEASE
PARASITIC INFECTION CAUSED BY LARVA STAGE OF CESTODE ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS
WHICH IS THE ACCEPTED ENDEMIC WHERE HYDATID DISEASE IS A MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEM?
WHERE CATTLE + SHEEP ARE RAISED + DOGS HAVE ACCESS TO ANIMAL OFFAL
ENEDMIC AREAS OF HYDATID DISEASE?
MEDETERIAN COUNTRIES
- spain
- greece
- turkey
NORTH AFRICA
MIDDLE EAST
AUTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND
SOUTH AMERICA
WHICH IS THE MOST COMMON SPECIES OF CESTORE ECHINOCCUS?
ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS WITH WIDEST GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
WHICH ANIMAL IS THE DEFINATE HOST OF ECHINOCCUS GRANULOSUS?
DOGS + OTHER CANINES
ADULT FOR E. GANULOSUS LIVE IN SMALL INTESTINE OF THE DEFINITIVE HOST
WHICH ANIMAL IS THE INTERMEDIATE HOST OF ECHINOCCUS GRANULOSUS?
SHEEPS
CATTLES
WHICH TYPE OF HOSTS ARE HUMANS FOR E. GRANULOSUS?
INTEMEDIATE HOST
WHICH ACTIVITIES MAY INTERUPT THE PARASITIC CYLE OF E. GRANULOSUS AND PREVENT THE SPREAD OF HYDATID DISEASE?
APPROPRIATE DISPOSAL OF INFECTED ANIMAL VISCERA
HUMAN SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS WITH CONSUMING POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED FRUITS + VEG IN ENEMIC AREA
WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF ADULT PARASITE OF ECHINICCOUS GRANULOSUS?
5mm TAPWORM PYRIFORM HEAD (SCOLEX) 4 SUCKERS NUMOURS HOOKLETS SHORT NECK ONLY FEW SEGMENTS (PROGLOTTIDS) of which the terminal one release the ova > 300-500 in number
WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF INTERMEDIATE ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS?
IS A HYDATID CYST
SPHERICAL SHAPE COLLECTION OF FLUID (some housing innumerable scolices)
WHITE TWO TRUE PARASITIC MEMBRANES (laminated + germinal)
STRUCTURE + ORIGIN OF PERICYSTIC LAYER OF HYDATID DISEASE?
SURROUNDING CYST > OUTER LATER (PERICYSTIC LAYER)
DOESN’T BELONG TO PARASITE
BUT REPRESENTS HOST PARENCHYME COMPRESSED INTO FIBROVASCULAR LAYER
WHICH ORGAN IS MOSTLY LOCALISED OF HYDATID CYST?
LIVER
SECOND MOST ORGAN AFFECTED BY HYDATID DISEASE?
LUNG
MOST COMMON COMPLICATION OF HYDATID DISEASE?
RUPTURE PRESSURE EFFECTS LOSS OF FUNCTION SECONDARY INFECTION ALLERGIC REACTION
WHICH COMPLICATION IN LIVER HYDATID CYST IS A RESULT OF PRESSURE EFFECT?
OBSTRUCTURE JAUNDICE
BUDD CHIARL SYNDROME