title: [Retrospective clinical and laboratory study of the toxocariasis cases hospitalised between 2005 and 2008].
abstract: The authors present the results of retroprospective clinical and laboratory diagnosis on toxocariasis cases hospitalized in the Paediatric Diseases Clinic of Iaşi, between January 2005-June 2008.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included a number of 228 children.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The most frequent clinical manifestation was pulmonary symptoms 80.70%: dyspneea, wheesing, asthma, cough, interstitial pneumonitis. The most frequent digestive symptoms were abdominal pain 41.22%, hepatosplenomegaly 29.38%; cutaneous manifestations were pruritus and urticaria. The laboratory diagnosis: hypereosinophilia was present at 94.73% childrens associated with hyperleucocytosis and hyper-gammaglobulinemia. All the patients were serologic confirmed with toxocariasis. The children responded well to treatment with albendazole.
authors.affiliation: Disciplina de Parazitologie, Facultatea de Medicină si Farmacie Gr.T. Popa Iasi.
authors.forename: Roxana-Gabriela
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Bahnea
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ivan
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cârdei
authors.forename: Mihaela Cătălina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Luca
authors.forename: Ortansa
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Stoica
authors.forename: Mariana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Luca
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000469:parasitology; D015766:Albendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000818:Animals; D000871:Anthelmintics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001249:Asthma / Q000469:parasitology; D002648:Child; D003371:Cough / Q000469:parasitology; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000469:parasitology; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000469:parasitology; D006529:Hepatomegaly / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D006942:Hypergammaglobulinemia / Q000469:parasitology; D007964:Leukocytosis / Q000469:parasitology; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000469:parasitology; D011537:Pruritus / Q000469:parasitology; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000209:etiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012383:Romania; D013163:Splenomegaly / Q000469:parasitology; D014119:Toxocara / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014120:Toxocariasis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014581:Urticaria / Q000469:parasitology
chemical_list: D000871:Anthelmintics; D015766:Albendazole