title: [Adult Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis: report of 12 cases (author's transl)].
abstract: Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis is not only a children disease. We observed 12 adult cases since 1971. Clinical presentation usually associates anarchic fever and splenomegaly, with anaemia, leucopenia, increased sedimentation rate and hypergammaglobulinemia. We must think to kala-azar, specially after a stay in an endemic country (mediterranean area), ask for parasites on bone-marrow smears and more often immunological diagnosis. Spontaneously fatal, the disease is easily cured by antimony derivatives.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000965:Antimony / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D008536:Meglumine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000077485:Meglumine Antimoniate; D008875:Middle Aged; D009942:Organometallic Compounds
chemical_list: D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D008536:Meglumine; D000077485:Meglumine Antimoniate; D000965:Antimony
vernacular_title: Leishmaniose viscérale méditerranéenne de l'adulte: 12 observations.