Investigação da ocorrência de enteroparasitoses em portadores de doenças autoimunes e em uso de imunossupressores a longo prazo

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Rawanderson dos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Moares, Anna Amelia de Paula, Porto, Wagnner José Nascimento, Wanderley, Flaviana Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Diversitas Journal
• Texto Completo: https://diversitasjournal.com.br/diversitas_journal/article/view/1098

ABSTRACT: Introduction. Patients diagnosed with autoimmune diseases have a higher risk of serious manifestations of intestinal parasitosis due their own disease or their treatment with immunosuppressive drugs. Objective. The present study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis in patients with autoimmune diseases and in use of immunosuppressants. Methods. It was analyzed the medical records of reumathological patients from the Ambulatory of Medical Specialities of the University of Health Sciences of Alagoas (UNCISAL). For each participant, a standard questionnaire was applied considering socioeconomic and environmental characteristics, sanitary habits and their clinical conditions. Parasitological examination of feces was performed in the participants. Results. There were 14 interviews and 08 fecal parasitological examinations. There was a predominance of females in the patients analyzed (85.7%). The most common pathologies were Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Rheumatoid Arthritis, each with 35.7%. Polypharmacy was present in all participants. The prevalence of medication was a 100% to Methotrexate, followed by Azathioprine (75%) and Prednisone (61%). No positivity of any species of parasite was found in the feces analyzed. Conclusion. Due to the scarcity of studies on the correlation between intestinal parasites and autoimmune diseases, there is a great need to deepen this theme, given that intestinal parasites are public health problems throughout Brazil and associated with this condition can have serious repercussions avoidable. KEYWORDS: Enteroparasitosis, Autoimune diseases, Imunossupressive drugs.