Year 2012 / Volume 104 / Number 6
Letter to the Editor
Visceral leishmaniasis diagnosed by double balloon enteroscopy

pp. 333

Rosa Gómez Espín, Eliana Fuentes, María Isabel López Espín, Paloma Bebia, Pilar Esteban, Silvia Chacón, José Luis Rodrigo, Antonio López Higueras y Enrique Pérez-Cuadrado

Abstract
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease caused by different species of the protozoan genus Leishmania that infect animals as well as humans. It is transmitted by the bite of infected female phle- botomine sandflies. There are three forms of leishmaniasis: cutaneus, mucocutaneus and visceral. Leishmania Donovani is the responsible for the visceral form and it causes fever, general dis- comfort and spleen and liver enlargement. Diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) may require taking a blood sample and/or a biopsy from the affected tissue to show the parasite.
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Rosa Gómez Espín, Eliana Fuentes, María Isabel López Espín, Paloma Bebia, Pilar Esteban, Silvia Chacón, José Luis Rodrigo, Antonio López Higueras y Enrique Pérez-Cuadrado. Visceral leishmaniasis diagnosed by double balloon enteroscopy. 333


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