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You Are What You Eat: A Case of Nematode-Induced Eosinophilic Esophagitis

Human anisakiasis is acquired through eating raw or undercooked saltwater fish or squid. Infestation with living larvae caused by eating parasitized fish often times results in gastroenteritis. It mainly involves the stomach and small intestine with no reported cases of eosinophilic esophagitis caus...

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Autores principales: Rezapour, Mona, Agarwal, Nikhil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5247626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28144618
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2017.13
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description Human anisakiasis is acquired through eating raw or undercooked saltwater fish or squid. Infestation with living larvae caused by eating parasitized fish often times results in gastroenteritis. It mainly involves the stomach and small intestine with no reported cases of eosinophilic esophagitis caused by Anisakidea. A 41-year-old man presented for the evaluation of 1 year of dysphagia to solid foods and was found to have endoscopic findings consistent with eosinophilic esophagitis with pathology showing 100 eosinophils per high-power field. During endoscopy, a roundworm, later identified as Anisakidae species, was found. Patient was treated with a 6-week course of albendazole with symptomatic, endoscopic, and histologic improvement.
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spelling pubmed-52476262017-01-31 You Are What You Eat: A Case of Nematode-Induced Eosinophilic Esophagitis Rezapour, Mona Agarwal, Nikhil ACG Case Rep J Case Report Human anisakiasis is acquired through eating raw or undercooked saltwater fish or squid. Infestation with living larvae caused by eating parasitized fish often times results in gastroenteritis. It mainly involves the stomach and small intestine with no reported cases of eosinophilic esophagitis caused by Anisakidea. A 41-year-old man presented for the evaluation of 1 year of dysphagia to solid foods and was found to have endoscopic findings consistent with eosinophilic esophagitis with pathology showing 100 eosinophils per high-power field. During endoscopy, a roundworm, later identified as Anisakidae species, was found. Patient was treated with a 6-week course of albendazole with symptomatic, endoscopic, and histologic improvement. American College of Gastroenterology 2017-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5247626/ /pubmed/28144618 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2017.13 Text en Copyright © Rezapour et al. This is an open-access article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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title_short You Are What You Eat: A Case of Nematode-Induced Eosinophilic Esophagitis
title_sort you are what you eat: a case of nematode-induced eosinophilic esophagitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5247626/
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