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S Bassily

Publications and source records attributed to S Bassily.

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PubMed1968

Urinary schistosomiasis treated with sodium antimony tartrate--a quantitative evaluation.

Seventeen Egyptian male farm-workers aged 8 to 27 years infected with Schistosoma haematobium were given twice-weekly intravenous injections of sodium antimony tartrate in a dose of 0.5 g. (30 mg.) per 15 kg. body weight for 12 injections. Bell's egg-count technique was used to evaluate results on 24-hour urine collections before and at 1, 4, 8, and 12 weeks after treatment. Patients were considered to be cured only when there were no eggs in the urine when examined by the filtration-staining, miracidial-hatching, and 24-hour urinesediment examination methods.At the final follow-up 14 out of 17 patients were found not to be passing eggs in the urine-an 82% cure rate. The mean reduction in egg output in the remaining three patients was 99%. These results are superior to any reported for other antimony drugs.

Adolescent↗
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Chronic hepatitis B antigenaemia in patients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis.

Thirty-five male patients with decompensated hepatosplenic schistosomiasis were longitudinally studied and divided into 3 Groups; with hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or antibody (anti-HBs) and a control group negative to both. Patients with HBsAg were persistently carrying the antigen as estimated by radioimmunoassay (RIA) for up to 3 years and when compared with the other 2 groups, they had significantly higher serum glutamic transaminases, their liver biopsy showed more destructive liver cell lesions in the form of chronic active hepatitis or liver cirrhosis, they were refractory to diuretic treatment and had higher mortality rate (64% in 3 years compared to 22% and 33% in the other 2 groups). The majority of patients with dual infection are at greater risk in spreading hepatitis B as they proved to carry the 'e' antigen.

Adult↗