NON CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT OF HUMAN HYDAT IDOSIS

Treatment of human hydatidosis is surgical. Lately, however, surgical indications have decreased, due to pharmacological therapy and ultraso und-guided percutaneous cyst puncture, aspiration of its contents, ins tillation of medications and re-aspiration. As a general rule, surgica l treatment is indicated in cysts larger than 10 cm 0 and located in e xtra abdominal sites, such as thorax, brain or bone. The drug of choic e is albendazole, in doses of 10 to 15 mg/kg/day for one month. Three cures with intervals of 15 to 30 days in between, are generally used. Thirty percent of cysts disappear, 30 to 50% experience degenerative c hanges and 30 to 40% do not change. Aspirative needle puncture is used , after four days of albendazole treatment, in those cysts that can be reached percutaneously. .