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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Autores principales: Zhao, Yuan, Wang, Liangjing, Si, Jianmin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-26442932009-02-18 Hook worm caused chronic anemia found during the procedure of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report Zhao, Yuan Wang, Liangjing Si, Jianmin Cases J 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 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. BioMed Central 2009-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2644293/ /pubmed/19178754 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-105 Text en Copyright ©2009 Zhao et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Zhao, Yuan
Wang, Liangjing
Si, Jianmin
Hook worm caused chronic anemia found during the procedure of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report
title Hook worm caused chronic anemia found during the procedure of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report
title_full Hook worm caused chronic anemia found during the procedure of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report
title_fullStr Hook worm caused chronic anemia found during the procedure of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Hook worm caused chronic anemia found during the procedure of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report
title_short Hook worm caused chronic anemia found during the procedure of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report
title_sort hook worm caused chronic anemia found during the procedure of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report
topic Case Report
url 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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