Background: Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease that causes skin infections around the world through bite of sand fly. This leads to formation cutaneous leishmaniasis and scars on area cosmetically significant. Objective: Our study aimed evaluate efficacy intralesional metronidazole (5%) in comparison with intralesionalmeglumineantimonate treatment leishmaniasis. Methods: In current 40 pati...

11 Summary Despite the fact that anemia is one of the most striking clinical features of visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar), the factors involved in the pathogenesis are not fully understood. The cause of anemia seen in these patients is often multifactorial including sequestration and destruction of the erythrocytes in the enlarged spleen, hemophagocytosis and alterations in erythrocyte membra...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic in certain areas of Iran, and in recent years, there has been an increase in the number of reports for rare and new forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis. We describe one unusual clinical form of cutaneous leishmaniasis. In a 27-year-old man, who noted a pimple on the upper eyelid 4 months before. The lesion was nodular and measured 1 cm × 1 cm in diameter. A diagn...

PURPOSE The present study aims to identify the risk factors for adverse drug reactions (ADR) in pediatric inpatients. METHODS A prospective cohort study in one general pediatric ward in a hospital in Northeast Brazil was conducted in two stages: the first stage was conducted between August 17th and November 6th, 2015, and the second one between March 1st and August 25th, 2016. We included chi...

Aim: To see the efficacy of meglumine antimoniate alone in comparison with combination and CO2 ablative laser among patients cutaneous leishmaniasis. Study design: Quasi-experimental study. Place duration study: Department Dermatology, Pakistan Emirates Military Hospital, Rawalpindi from 9th July 2020 to 8th January 2021. Methodology: Sixty (30 each group) diagnosed cases leishmaniasis by skin ...

Visceral leishmaniasis is the second most common cause of fever of unknown origin in our study. This disease is not common in adults, although it's endemic among the pediatric age group. The majority of the affected individuals were young. High grade spiking fever, chills and splenomegaly were unique findings. Other common findings were neutropenia, anemia, abnormal liver function tests, st...

visceral leishmaniasis is the second most common cause of fever of unknown origin in our study. this disease is not common in adults, although it's endemic among the pediatric age group. the majority of the affected individuals were young. high grade spiking fever, chills and splenomegaly were unique findings. other common findings were neutropenia, anemia, abnormal liver function tests, s...

Old world cutaneous leishmaniasis (OWCL) usually causes a single, self-healing and uncomplicated lesion mainly on the exposed area of body. This report presents four cases of OWCL from Iran that misdiagnosed with sarcoidosis, lymphoma, and acne agminata. Two out of four patients showed a history of purplish red plaques for at least 5 years who misdiagnosed as sarcoidosis because of histological...

Chemically synthesized cero-antimonate and titanium cero-antimonate prepared by sol-gel technique was conducted for the synthesis of a novel ion exchanger. The prepared materials has been characterized by X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, Fourier transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) and Thermogravemetric analyses. The structures and empirical formula's was identified and found to CeSb4O...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is the most common parasitic disease transmitted by vectors in Iran. CL is endemic in many urban and rural parts of Iran and usually caused by two species of Leishmania as L. major and L. tropica transmitted to humans from parasite reservoirs by the bite of female sandflies. We report a case of ocular leishmaniasis with eyelid involvement presentation. The patient w...