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MAX L. GOODMAN, MD; IRA GORE, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1964;113(5):702-705.

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Dirofilaria is the generic name for long filiform nematodes that commonly infect dogs and other mammals. In Dirofilaria immitis infection, the adult parasite lodges in the right ventricular cavity and/or the pulmonary arteries and gives rise to circulating microfilaria. Despite its frequency in domesticated dogs, D immitis infection is rare, and subcutaneous or orbital infections by other species of Dirofilaria are uncommon. Faust¹ reviewed the literature in 1957 and found only 37 cases of human infection; only three were D immitis (heart worm) infection. All of the other cases involved orbital or subcutaneous tissues and were classified as D conjunctivae or D repens infections. Other instances of subcutaneous infection have been reported by Sams and Beck,² Jung and Harris,³ and Lenth.⁴ Dashiele ⁵ reported the first instance of human pulmonary involvement by recognizing larval dirofilariae in branches of the pulmonary artery within a "coin lesion." We . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the departments of pathology, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals and Boston University Medical Center.

Footnotes
Received for publication Oct 8, 1963; accepted Oct 28.

Associate Pathologist, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Associate in Pathology, Boston University Medical School (Dr. Goodman); Pathologist, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Professor of Pathology, Boston University Medical School (Dr. Gore).

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