Chyluria Due to Filariasis

Chyluria due to lymphatic filariasis: case report and review.

Filariasis, with chyluria and nephrotic range proteinuria.

28 yr female presented with (grade III) chyluria, with nephrotic range proteinuria and Ig M mesangial deposition in immunofluorescence, secondary to filariasis which was confirmed by serology and microfilaria in glomerulus,and successfully treated by Renal Pelvic instillation sclerotherapy with 0.2% povidine and medical treatment (Diethylcarbamazine). She was asymptomatic with follow up period ...

Filariasis and traumatic chyluria as displayed by lymphangiography.

INTRODUCTION Chyluria is the presence of chyle in the urine, giving it a milky appearance. Chyle is the milky fluid taken up by the lacteals from the food in the intestine after digestion. It consists of lymph and emulsified fat that passes into the thoracic duct and subclavian veins. When there is extravasation of chyle into the thorax, it is called chylothorax and in the abdomen, chylous asci...

Extralymphatic disease due to bancroftian filariasis.

Infection with Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, or B. timori not only affects the structure and function of lymphatic vessels but is also associated with extralymphatic pathology and disease. Because it is now possible to detect living adult worms by ultrasonography, much emphasis is placed on lymphatic pathology. However, the finding of renal damage in asymptomatic microfilaremic carriers ...

Efficacy of hormonal suppression in a patient with chyluria due to lymphangioleiomyomatosis

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare lung disease affecting almost exclusively young women, characterised by abnormal proliferation of atypical smooth muscle cells. We describe a young woman presenting with chyluria secondary to the presence of a large retroperitoneal lymphangioleiomyoma. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed HMB45-negative LAM cells (HMB45 staining is absent only in rare c...