Biliary parasites: Diagnostic and therapeutic strategies

Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 85-95

  Khandelwal, Niraj ^a   Shaw, Joanna ^a   Jain, Mamta K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BITHIONOL; CARBAMAZEPINE; COMMIPHORA MOLMOL EXTRACT; DEXAMETHASONE; IVERMECTIN; LEVAMISOLE; MEBENDAZOLE; MIRAZID; NITAZOXANIDE; PHENYTOIN; PLANT EXTRACT; PRAZIQUANTEL; PYRANTEL EMBONATE; THEOPHYLLINE; TRIBENDIMIDINE; TRICLABENDAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ALOPECIA; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT INFECTION; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLONORCHIASIS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; COMMIPHORA; DIARRHEA; DICROCOELIASIS; DICROCOELIUM; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG COST; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; EDEMA; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FEVER; FOOD; FOOD DRUG INTERACTION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSOMNIA; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER TOXICITY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MICROSCOPY; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; OPISTHORCHIS FELINEUS; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARASITOSIS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRURITUS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOMNOLENCE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSAMINITIS; URTICARIA; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

EID: 58649100013     PISSN: 10928472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11938-008-0020-z     Document Type: Review

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