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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; {Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Tarek Nafee, M.D. [2]
Overview
The role of surgical intervention for cryptosporidiosis is reserved for extra-gastrointestinal manifestions primarily in immunocompromised patients. Examples of this include cases biliary cryptosporidiosis causing acalculous cholecystitis or rarely, colerectal carcinoma.[1][2][3]
Surgery
The role of surgical intervention for cryptosporidiosis is reserved for cases of biliary cryptosporidiosis causing acalculous cholecystitis. Patients with this manifestation of the disease are usually immunocompromised and may benefit from a cholecystectomy. Rarely, cases of cryptosporidiosis causing colorectal carcinoma have been described.[1][2][3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Keshavjee SH, Magee LA, Mullen BJ, Baron DL, Brunton JL, Gallinger S (1993). "Acalculous cholecystitis associated with cytomegalovirus and sclerosing cholangitis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome". Can J Surg. 36 (4): 321–5. PMID 8396496.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Labarca J, Tagle R, Acuña G, Oddó D, Pérez C, Guzmán S (1992). "[Acalculous acute cholecystitis caused by Cryptosporidium in a patient with AIDS]". Rev Med Chil. 120 (7): 789–93. PMID 1341821.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cappell MS (1991). "Hepatobiliary manifestations of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome". Am J Gastroenterol. 86 (1): 1–15. PMID 1986533.