TABLE 2.
Management and treatment of 78 cases of polycystic echinococcosis and 3 cases of unicystic echinococcosis with sufficient information
| Clinical disease typea | No. of patients with indicated treatment or outcome
|
No. of patients who died after study completion | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lapa/biopsyb | Surgery
|
Albendazole alone | Died of PEc | Autopsy finding | Calcified cysts | Total (% of all patients) | |||
| Survived | Died | ||||||||
| I | 7 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 30 (37) | 1 | ||
| II | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 21 (26) | 5 | |
| III | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 (14) | 3 | |
| IV | 3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 (16) | ||
| V | 3 | 3 (4) | |||||||
| VI | 2 (2) | ||||||||
| VII | 1 (1) | ||||||||
| Total | 10d | 35 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 81 (100) | 9 |
a
Note that types VI and VII represent unicystic echinococcosis.
b
Lapa, laparotomy.
c
PE, polycystic echinococcosis.
d
One Costa Rican case was excluded from the total because rostellar hooks were not found.