Intestinal Schistosomiasis: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain and Weight loss

Abdominal pain is one of the most common reasons for outpatient visits. Although intestinal schistosomiasis is extremely rare in US, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis for those patients with risk factors such as international traveling history. This case report illustrates a uniq...

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Autores principales: Shuja, Asim, Guan, Jian, Harris, Ciel, Alkhasawneh, Ahmad, Malespin, Miguel, De Melo, Silvio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5856413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29560299
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2086
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author Shuja, Asim
Guan, Jian
Harris, Ciel
Alkhasawneh, Ahmad
Malespin, Miguel
De Melo, Silvio
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Malespin, Miguel
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description Abdominal pain is one of the most common reasons for outpatient visits. Although intestinal schistosomiasis is extremely rare in US, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis for those patients with risk factors such as international traveling history. This case report illustrates a unique case of intestinal schistosomiasis, which presented with an eight-week history of nonspecific abdominal pain and weight loss. Her colonoscopy revealed a 10 mm polyp in the colon. Endoscopic mucosal resection confirmed the diagnosis of schistosomiasis. Treatment with Praziquantel resulted in significant improvement of her symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-58564132018-03-20 Intestinal Schistosomiasis: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain and Weight loss Shuja, Asim Guan, Jian Harris, Ciel Alkhasawneh, Ahmad Malespin, Miguel De Melo, Silvio Cureus Gastroenterology Abdominal pain is one of the most common reasons for outpatient visits. Although intestinal schistosomiasis is extremely rare in US, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis for those patients with risk factors such as international traveling history. This case report illustrates a unique case of intestinal schistosomiasis, which presented with an eight-week history of nonspecific abdominal pain and weight loss. Her colonoscopy revealed a 10 mm polyp in the colon. Endoscopic mucosal resection confirmed the diagnosis of schistosomiasis. Treatment with Praziquantel resulted in significant improvement of her symptoms. Cureus 2018-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5856413/ /pubmed/29560299 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2086 Text en Copyright © 2018, Shuja et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Shuja, Asim
Guan, Jian
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Alkhasawneh, Ahmad
Malespin, Miguel
De Melo, Silvio
Intestinal Schistosomiasis: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain and Weight loss
title Intestinal Schistosomiasis: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain and Weight loss
title_full Intestinal Schistosomiasis: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain and Weight loss
title_fullStr Intestinal Schistosomiasis: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain and Weight loss
title_full_unstemmed Intestinal Schistosomiasis: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain and Weight loss
title_short Intestinal Schistosomiasis: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain and Weight loss
title_sort intestinal schistosomiasis: a rare cause of abdominal pain and weight loss
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5856413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29560299
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2086
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