DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i07.024

Pages: 744-748

Pleuro-pulmonary affection of amoebiasis is the most common extraintestinal site of amoebiasis after hepatic disorder. We report two case reports of pleuro-pulmonary amoebiasis concerning two men aged 47 and 37 years, respectively, with a history of dysentery syndrome. It is a purulent pleurisy in the first case associated with a hepatic abscess, and a parasitic eosinophilic lung in the second case. The diagnosis was confirmed by the high positive amoebic serology in the first case and on the radio-clinical data and the isolation of Entamoeba histolytica histolytica in the second with a good evolution under treatment. This was based on metronidazole (1.5 g / d) for 14 days, with evacuation of the pleural cavity. The clinical and radiological progress was good in both cases.