Giant Hematoma of Rectus Abdominis Muscle in a Patient with Schistosomiasis without Periportal Abnormalities

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Alexandre Sacchetti Bezerra Walter Moisés Tobias Braga Raphaela Ferrari Rafi Felicio Bauab Dauar Heitor Andrei Miranda de Carvalho Rodrigo Delfino Nascimento

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Alexandre Sacchetti Bezerra
Instituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas, Brazil

A B S T R A C T

A 60-year-old patient came to the IIER due to abdominal pain for 2 days, associated with flu with cough. The patient treated schistosomiasis twice without effects. During physical examination and complementary exams, she presented ecchymosis in the midline of the abdomen, normal platelet level, giant hematoma in the rectus abdominais muscle without periportal changes. A careful retrospective analysis shows inconsistency between the initial platelet levels and the severe progression of the clinical. The investigation and confirmation of thrombocytopenia is very important, and some medical center recommend manual counting through blood smears. Prospective studies are needed to know how platelet measurements should be performed in schistosomiasis.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 09, Jan 2023
Accepted: Mon 30, Jan 2023
Published: Mon 06, Feb 2023

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© 2023 Alexandre Sacchetti Bezerra. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JICOA.2023.01.02