Prof. Dr. Adnan Al-Hindi, Professor of Medical Parasitology, Laboratory Medical Sciences Department, Faculty of Health Sciences at the Islamic University, participated in a scientific research in the Annual International Conference pursuant to an invitation he received from the British Society for Parasitology as an honorary member. The conference was held at York University with the attendance of approximately (170) ) male and female researchers from all over the world, and the number of research participating in the conference reached (151) papers, and (118) posters, in addition to a number of workshops.
Prof. Al-Hindi participated in the conference sessions with a refereed scientific research entitled: “Histopathological and molecular diagnosis of eight clinical human hydatidosis from the Gaza Strip, Palestine”.
In the research, Prof. Al-Hindi discussed hydatid cyst diseases, where dogs are the final hosts of Echinococcus granulosus parasite, and the parasite eggs are transmitted to humans and herbivores through contamination of food and drink. The disease is characterized by the presence of a tumor as a result of growing the parasite larva in human tissues, such as: liver, brain, lungs, bone and other tissues.
Prof. Dr. Hindi added that the current study focused on the multiple diagnosis of clinical cases, as the diagnoses included the clinical presentation of each patient, histopathological studies and molecular diagnosis, and the study sample included tracking (15) patients from four hospitals in the Gaza Strip, a surgical excision of (8) of them was performed.
The results showed that 46.7% of the examined cases confirmed the presence of hydatid cyst in the liver, as well as patients complained of various medical symptoms, the most prominent of which were: weight loss, which reached 60% of the affected patients. The study also revealed that sequencing and analyzes of one genotype of E. granulosus genotype 1 (G1) is responsible for these hydatid cysts.
Prof. Al-Hindi said: “The study concluded with confirmation of the occurrence of hydatid cyst disease in the examined human tissue samples, and it belongs to genotype 1”. The study recommended generalizing the results to physicians and researchers, especially newly graduated physicians and Palestinian board physicians.
It is noteworthy that the study team consisted of: Dr. Faeq Abu Rouk, Dr. Hossam Hamada, Dr. Abdel Aziz Al-Farra – from the Ministry of Health, and Prof. Dr. Abdel Moneim Lobbad, and Dr. Shahd Adnan Al Hindi – from the Islamic University.