title: [Schistosomiasis and acute appendicitis].
abstract: Acute appendicitis associated to Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni infection has been found in patients submitted to urgent appendectomy at the Hospital Américo Boavida in Luanda. Due to the high prevalence and morbidity caused by schistosomiasis (or bilharziasis) in the country, we suspect that the involvement of Schistosoma infection on appendicular pathology could be very frequent, in particular for those individuals more exposed to the parasite transmission. We report two clinical cases of acute appendicitis whose surgical specimens of the appendix revealed S. haematobium and S. mansoni eggs in histological samples. The reported patients live in endemic areas and have been exposed to schistosome during childhood, which may explain the infection's chronicity. Information of these clinical cases could be relevant, particularly for surgery specialists and clinical pathologists, due to the possibility of finding more patients with concurrent appendicitis and schistosomiasis.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Urologia. Hospital Américo Boavida. Luanda. Angola.
authors.forename: Jacinta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Figueiredo
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Cirurgia Geral. Hospital Américo Boavida. Luanda. Angola.
authors.forename: Ângela
authors.initials: Â
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Cirurgia Geral. Hospital Américo Boavida. Luanda. Angola.
authors.forename: Horácio
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Clemente
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Cirurgia Geral. Hospital Américo Boavida. Luanda. Angola.
authors.forename: Augusto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lourenço
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Anatomia Patológica. Hospital Américo Boavida. Universidade Agostinho Neto. Luanda. Angola.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.affiliation: Unidade de Parasitologia Médica. Grupo de Helmintologia e Malacologia Médicas. Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical. Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Lisboa. Portugal.
authors.forename: Maria Amélia
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Grácio
authors.affiliation: Unidade de Parasitologia Médica. Grupo de Helmintologia e Malacologia Médicas. Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical. Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Lisboa. Portugal.
authors.forename: Silvana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Belo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D055815:Young Adult