Malaría á Íslandi, sjaldgæf en stöðug ógn fyrir ferðalanga

Rögnvaldsson, Kristján Godsk; Guðmundsson, Sigurður; Gottfreðsson, Magnús

doi:10.17992/lbl.2016.06.84

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“…1 Með auknum ferðalögum má gera ráð fyrir að sýkingar af ýmsum toga sem faestir íslenskir laeknar þekkja nema af afspurn muni í vaxandi maeli koma til þeirra kasta. 13 Vert er að hafa slíka sjúkdóma í huga hjá sjúklingum með ódaemigerð og þrálát einkenni eins og í fyrra tilfelli okkar.…”

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Tvö sjúkratilfelli: Ormur í auga og endurteknar bólgur á útlimum

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Gottfreðsdóttir²,

Johannsson

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We report two cases of Loa loa (eye worm) infection in Iceland; the former in a 35-year-old woman born in Africa but living in Iceland for several years; the latter in a 31-year- old woman who had traveled in Africa. Both women sought medical attention due to discomfort in one eye. On exami-nation a worm was noted in both cases, moving under the conjunctiva, 3 cm in length and 0.5 mm in diameter. Both patients also had symptoms from the extremities; episodic swelling and itching in the former case, and muscle pain in the latter. Both patients were diagnosed with loiasis with Calabar swellings of the extremities and were successfully treated with albendazole and diethylcarbamazine. Increased awareness is needed for infections which previously have been rare in the Nordics.

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