METHOD FOR PREDICTING OPISTHORCHIASIS Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with predicting opisthorhiatic hepatic and gastro-duodenal lesions. In the course of esophagogastroduodenoscopy one should evaluate the degree of mucosal lesion in pyloric gastric department, and, also, the presence and degree of duodenogastric reflux, in case of which one should introduce a flexible catheter into duodenal bulb through biopsy canal of a gastroduodenoscope followed by aspiration of duodenal bulb's content under visual control followed by direct microscopy of this content with the purpose to detect helminthic eggs. During sampling the content of duodenal bulb one should introduce a catheter there being at 1-1.5 cm against pyloric bagasse and up to the major duodenal papilla one should perform slipping movements above mucosal surface. Aspiration should be fulfilled into a 10-20-g-syringe for 2-3 min. The method enables to detect infection with opisthorchiasis at low intensity of opisthorchiatic invasion.

EFFECT: higher accuracy of diagnostics.

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