VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN PEDIATRICS
A CLINICAL STUDY
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Pediatrics, Clinical Diagnosis, Visceral Leishmaniasis, EpidemiologyAbstract
To report a case of Visceral Leishmaniasis in a child from an endemic area in the Northeast, in Quixeramobim-Ceará. Case report on a pediatric patient, carried out by data collection, using medical record review, including clinical and epidemiological characteristics and analysis of diagnostic tests between October and December 2023, in a secondary hospital in Ceará. A 7-year-old male patient from Quixeramobim-CE was admitted with intermittent fever for a month, hypoactivity, drowsiness, increased abdominal volume, HCD pain, dry cough, weight loss, hyporexia and occasional nausea. With the initial hypothesis of VL, an rK39 test was performed, with a negative result and a myelogram with leishmania in the smear. The patient's clinical condition must be considered, even in the face of negative results from the initial methods chosen, and other tests must be sought to help confirm the initial diagnostic hypothesis or rule out differential diagnoses.
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