Série histórica de pacientes com Leishmaniose visceral tratados com antimoniato de meglumina

• Autor(a) principal: Silveira, Lindon Johoson Diniz [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/10075
• topic: Adverse reactions; Meglumine antimonite; Treatment; Visceral leishmaniasis; Antimoniato de meglumina; Reações adversas; Tratamento; Leishmaniose visceral; Efeitos colaterais e reações adversas relacionados a medicamentos; Meglumina; Terapêutica

Introduction: Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is an endemic disease found in Brazil mainly in Northeast region. These protozoosis is an infection, systemic, chronic disease characterized by fever, hepatosplenomegaly and increase of lymph nods, pancytopenia, hypergamaglobulinemia, edema and progressive state of weakness, taking the patient to obit if not treated. The first line drug for this treatment is meglumine antimonite (Glucantime®). Objective: Check the general characteristic of VL patients, the criteria used for diagnosis, possible side effects to meglumine antimonite (Glucantime®) and blood pressure before and after the treatment. Method: Observational transversal descriptive study with evaluation of 89 patients treated with meglumine antimonite (Glucantime®) in HEHA/Maceio/Brazil, in the period of May/2006 to December/2009. For these, we collected data concerning to age, gender, place of origin, diagnostic method, side effects to meglumine antimonite (Glucantime®), hospitalization period and length of treatment and cumulative dose until side effects. Data were analyzed by SPSS Program. Results: the results showed a predominance of males, children of country origin and main diagnostic method by medullar aspiration. From the patients that were treated with meglumine antimonite, 3 (3.37%) died, 12 (13.48%) showed side effects and 74 (83.14%) were healed. The clinical symptoms that led to the substitution of pentavalent antimony were persistent fever, ictericia, exanthema, bleeding and cyanosis. The patients that recovering from illness (83.14%) were hospitalized for a mean of 19.6 days, the period of treatment varied from 21 to 40 days and the given dose varied from 4123 to 44640 (accumulated dose by weigth).The blood pressure before and after treatment did not have any change. Conclusion: During the study were analized 89 patients hospitalized for LV: 74 were healed, 12 were replaced by amphotericin B treatment and 03 died. Most of them were under 5 years old, male and came from the country. The marrow aspirate was the most frequently diagnosis used and little is used the serological diagnosis. The dosage and duration of treatment with meglumine antimoniate (Glucantime ®) were consistent with what advocates the Ministry of Health. Persistence of fever, jaundice, rash, cyanosis and bleeding were the reactions that led the physician to modify treatment. No change was observed in blood pressure before and after treatment.