We describe a patient with chyluria due to abdominal Bancroftian filariasis. The patient showed two unusual complications, an immune complex glomerulonephritis and a chronic urinary infection. We also discuss the use of the CT whole body scanner in the diagnosis and delineation of the extent of the disease.

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...

clear account of the microscopic examination of the sediment, which are also well illustrated in the plates at the end of the book. Then comes the qualitative chemical examination of albumin, other urinary proteids, mucin, blood, chyluria, sugar, bile, &c. The following sections deal with the quantitative examination of albumin, glucose, urea, phosphates, &c., and this is followed by a brief an...

Japan is said to have eradicated filariasis some 25 years ago, but the exact time (and even the definition of eradication) is not clear. However, the results of successful control programs clearly indicate that the number of microfilaria carriers had been reduced to a very low level long before the “eradication”. As filariasis disappeared, the once stigmatized disease quickly lost clinical sign...