OBJECTIVES To present a detailed investigation of risk factors, symptoms, and laboratory and imaging tests that may be useful to establish the clinical laboratory diagnosis of visceral larva migrans (VLM) in children, demonstrating the importance of diagnosis and treatment to prevent complications in the eyes, liver, and other organs. SOURCES Literature review using the MEDLINE and LILACS (19...

For some time a syndrome of massive eosino-philia associated with respiratory and other symptoms has been recognized. The condition carries on the whole a good prognosis, is self-limiting and is most commonly seen in children, often occurring in several members of the same family. Frequently observed in the tropics or the subtropics, it has been variously described as Loeffler's syndrome, tropi...

count of 41 × 103/mm3. Isotretinoin therapy was suspended and new treatment was instated with 100 mg/d prednisone; oral contraceptive medication was maintained. After 9 days, the platelet count had returned to normal (179 × 103/mm3) and prednisone was suspended. The Coombs test and tests for antinuclear antibodies, anticardiolipin, human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus...

Hookworm-related cutaneous larva migrans is caused by the intradermal migration of soil-dwelling filariform larvae dog and cat hookworms, most commonly Ancylostoma, usually develop itchy skin lesions, consisting migrating superficial serpiginous traces, or sometimes stationary follicular eruptions. The plantar topography on regions body in contact with sand beaches Antilles, West Africa East As...