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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2020): Rev. Arg. Parasitol.

Dioctofimosis renal, abdominal and intraprostatic in a canine

Submitted
May 22, 2024
Published
2020-04-30

Abstract

Dioctophymosis is a parasitosis caused by Dioctophyme renale with heteroxen biological cycle, cosmopolitan and zoonotic parasite. The natural hosts are mainly mustelids and other carnivores. The eggs are released with the definitive host’s urine and ingested by a freshwater oligochaete. The adult is usually in the right kidney. However, it has been described in the left kidney, abdominal cavity, thoracic cavity, ureters, bladder, urethra, uterus, ovarian pouch, mammary gland, scrotum, liver, stomach, subcutaneous tissue, forming pararenal cysts and medullary canal. The infection is considered ectopic if an adult was recovered outside the kidneys. The objective was to describe a case of canine dioctophymosis of intraprostatic location in a male 3 years old. At the clinical examination, the canine showed hirsute hair and moderate decrease in body weight, with signs of partial urinary obstruction, abdominal pain, urinary tenesmus, dysuria and hematuria. Ultrasound scanned the hypertrophied prostate gland, with a thick-walled cavitary neoformation and a specimen of Dioctophyme renale causing an abscess inside. Through exploratory laparotomy, one female and one male were removed from the abdominal cavity, and 5 females and 2 males from the right kidney, in addition to the intraprostatic male. Dioctophymosis should be included among differential diagnoses in male canines with urinary obstruction, urolithiasis, prostatomegaly (prostatitis, abscesses, hyperplasia, neoplasms), especially in endemic areas. It is concluded by highlighting the relevance of the early diagnosis of erratic dioctophymosis.

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