Vnitr Lek 2015, 61(6):527-530

Rare case of cystic disease of the liver - alveolar echinococcosis of the liver

Tomáš Kupka^1,*, Peter Baľa¹, Lubomíra Hozáková², Jaroslav Havelka³, Martina Bojková¹, Bohdana Břegová¹, Arnošt Martínek¹, Petr Dítě¹

¹ Interní klinika LF OU a FN Ostrava, přednosta doc. MUDr. Arnošt Martínek, CSc.

² Klinika infekčního lékařství LF OU a FN Ostrava, přednosta doc. MUDr. Luděk Rožnovský, CSc.

³ Ústav radiodiagnostický LF OU a FN Ostrava, přednosta doc. MUDr. Petr Krupa, CSc.

Alveolar echinococcosis is a rare parasitic disease, especially of liver, caused by larval stage of tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. At the end of the last century France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland were the most often regions with this disease, these days is this infection diagnosed also in our territory. We describe the case of the disease of the twenty-five years old male with nonspecific signs and hepatomegaly, who was diagnosed on the basis of imaging and laboratory sampling. Due to inoperability the patient is now in infectologist follow-up on a long-term treatment with albendazole. He is clinically stable, included in waiting list for liver transplantation.

Keywords: alveolar echinococcosis; benzimidazols; Echinococcus multilocularis; parasitic disease of liver

Received: July 17, 2014; Accepted: February 9, 2015; Published: June 1, 2015  Show citation