Hook worm caused chronic anemia found during the procedure of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report

BACKGROUND: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding with complicated factors is always difficult to find the primary origin. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of a 74-year-old male farmer suffered from acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by gastric ulcer and Mallory-Weiss syndrome and chron...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Zhao, Yuan, Wang, Liangjing, Si, Jianmin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-105
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding with complicated factors is always difficult to find the primary origin. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of a 74-year-old male farmer suffered from acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by gastric ulcer and Mallory-Weiss syndrome and chronic anemia which was at last found caused by hook worm infection. CONCLUSION: It tells us that considering multi-possibility when can not explain the symptom with monophyletism is very important for clinicians.

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