Table
4 : Immunomonitoring
and clinical follow up of filarial patients during DEC therapy.
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Case No. | Age & Sex | Clinical presentation (Duration) |
Duration of DEC therapy (Months) |
Filarial antibody positivity |
Filarial antigen positivity |
Clinical Progress | ||
Before DEC therapy | After DEC therapy |
Before DEC therapy | After DEC therapy | |||||
1. | 37M | Oedema Right foor (45days) Recurrent fever (45 days) | 6 | + | - | + | - | Recovered |
2. | 40F | Fever, ADL and Oedema Right lower limb(10 days) | 6 | + | - | + | - | Recovered |
3. | 46F | Bilateral oedema lower limb with intermittent pain (45 days) | 12 | + | - | ND | - | Minimal oedema persists |
4. | 34M | Oedema right lower limb (15 days) | 3 | + | - | - | - | Recovered |
5. | 48M | Bilateral vaginal hydrocele (5 yrs) | 6 | + | - | + | - | Minimal hydrocele persists |
6. | 43M | Epididymoorchitis & Funicilitis & Funiculitis (left) (4 months) | 3 | + | - | + | - | Recovered |
7. | 33M | Dimness of vision Right eye Macu;ar oedema & CSR (2 months) | 1 | + | - | - | - | Recovered |
8. | 23M | CSR with dimness 0f vision (3 months) | 3 | + | - | - | - | Recovered |
9. | 41 | TPE (4 months) | 6 | + | - | + | - | Recovered |
10. | 20M | TPE (1 month) | 3 | - | - | + | - | Recovered |
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Clinical group treatment given in |
No. of cases studied |
Duration of DEC (percentage of cases parentheses) | ||||||
Acute
clinical filariasis :
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22 |
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Chronic clinical filariasis: Hydrocele , lymphoedema and elephantiasis cases, chronic ADL, chronic epididymoorchitis, elephantiasis of breast |
62 |
3
months (16 %) | ||||||
Occult
filariasis :
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5 |
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