Chronic diarrhea and malabsorption caused by Leishmania donovani.

Baba, Chalamalasetty Sreenivasa; Makharia, Govind K; Mathur, Purva; Ray, Ruma; Gupta, Siddhartha Datta; Samantaray, J C

Chronic diarrhea and malabsorption caused by Leishmania donovani.

Date

2006-11-01

Authors

Baba, Chalamalasetty Sreenivasa

Makharia, Govind K

Mathur, Purva

Ray, Ruma

Gupta, Siddhartha Datta

Samantaray, J C

Abstract

Chronic diarrhea and malabsorption are uncommon in immunocompetent patients with visceral leishmaniasis. We report two immunocompetent patients with visceral leishmaniasis where the predominant presentation was chronic diarrhea. One of them had clinically overt malabsorption and duodenal mucosa was loaded with Leishmania donovani bodies. The other patient had diffuse colonic aphthous and discrete ulcerations and Leishmania donovani bodies were seen in the crush smears of the colonic mucosa. With amphotericin B, there was reversal of malabsorption and healing of colonic ulcers.

Citation

Baba CS, Makharia GK, Mathur P, Ray R, Gupta SD, Samantaray JC. Chronic diarrhea and malabsorption caused by Leishmania donovani. Indian Journal of Gastroenterology. 2006 Nov-Dec; 25(6): 309-10