Badania czynnościowe i bioptyczne wątroby w przebiegu schistosomatozy

Functional examination of the liver was made in 88 persons with intestinal schistosomatosis, and laparoscopy as well as biopsy of the liver in 24 of them. In 700/o of the patients hypoalbuminaemia with hypergammaglobulinaemia was found out. Flocculoreaction was positive in 400/o of the patients, and BSP test in 2/3 of them. The laparoscopic and bioptic pictures were characterized by hyperplasia of connective tissue along the main vascular stems. The result of this research, a s well as recent reports in the literature, support the conclusion that in the course of schistosomatosis the liver cells get injured, what had been questioned before.