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Clinical features of severe opisthorchiasis were studied in 88 patients. The ratio of males to females was 6.3 : 1; 75% were over 40 years old. The presenting symptoms were obstructive jaundice, 25% associated with secondary infection of biliary system; cholangitis and cholecystitis; intraabdominal
OBJECTIVE
to study the regularities of lithogenesis in patients with cholelithiasis (CL) and opisthorchiasis.
METHODS
Fifty-one patients with CL and opisthorchiasis were examined. Comparison groups comprised 32 with CL without opisthorchiasis and 14 patients with opisthorchiasis without CL. All the
Serum glutamyl transferase (gamma-GT), serum total protein, albumin, aspartate aminotransferase (GOT), alanine aminotransferase (GPT), alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin were measured in 55 males and 45 females suffering from O. viverrini infection and in apparently healthy non-infected individuals.
Studies were carried out from June 1974 to May 1975 on the socio-economic status, health and nutritional status of the people in 4 villages, in the irrigation area of the Nong Wai Pioneer Agricultural Project of Khon Kaen Province, Northeast Thailand. The result obtained were compared with those in