| a new breakthrough in treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in children. | fifty cases of visceral leishmaniasis were admitted in children's hospital, islamabad. common clinical features were fever (100%), splenomegaly (100%), hepatomegaly (100%), anaemia (96%), abdominal distension (40%), bronchopneumonia (26%) and bleeding diathesis (22%). hb was below 7.0 g/dl in 80%, white cell count below 4 x 10(9)/cmm in 88% and platelet count below 100 x 10(9)/c4mm in 86%. all the patients showed leishmania donovani bodies in the marrow smears. fourteen patients were treated wit ... | 1995 | 7474290 |