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[Multiple digestive involvement in visceral leishmaniasis in a patient with HIV infection: favourable course with
D Béchade1, L Seurat, G Discamps
1Service de médecine interne et d'hématologie, HIA Robert Picqué, Bordeaux-Armées, France.
La Revue De Medecine Interne
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
We report a case of visceral leishmaniasis due to Leishmania infantum in a 35 year-old patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome who complained of chronic diarrhea. Biopsy specimens of gastric and duodenal mucosa and bone marrow aspirate led to the diagnosis. Enterocytozoon bieneusi, fortuitously found in the duodenal mucosa, did not seem to be the causative agent of diarrhea in this case, but its association with visceral leishmaniasis is rare. A treatment with itraconazole brought about a sustained clinical remission.