[Pre-, intra- and postoperative allergic manifestations in hepatic echinococcosis]

Data obtained from 502 patients operated for echinococcosis (hydatid disease) are analyzed. In 61 of them (12,15 per cent) a variety of allergic manifestations are observed before the operation. Serious allergic shocks intraoperatively, and lethal outcome due to allergic shock in the postoperative period are described. Inferences are reached about the necessity of performing mandatory examination of all allergic patients for echinococcosis as an eventual underlying cause of allergy, as well as mandatory preoperative tests for allergy to drugs and anesthetics along with undertaking antiallergic prophylaxis of patients in the postoperative period to obviate eventual allergic accidents, regardless of their presence or not in the previous history.