Case Report: A rare cause of vaginal bleeding at Keren Zonal Referral Hospital, Eritrea

Vaginal bleeding due to leech infestation is a very uncommon but important gynaecological problem. This report presents the case of a 65-year-old woman who presented to Keren Regional Referral Hospital, Eritrea, with vaginal bleeding of two and half weeks duration, dizziness and fatigue. On the day...

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Autores principales: Abraha, Million, Solomon, Shiden
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8108554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34026048
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17453.2
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description Vaginal bleeding due to leech infestation is a very uncommon but important gynaecological problem. This report presents the case of a 65-year-old woman who presented to Keren Regional Referral Hospital, Eritrea, with vaginal bleeding of two and half weeks duration, dizziness and fatigue. On the day of her admission complete blood count and speculum exam were done and she was diagnosed with anaemia due to cervical leech infestation. Routine speculum exam for vaginal bleeding is recommended in cases with history of holy water or springs visits to prevent unnecessary diagnostic tests and for rapid management.
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spelling pubmed-81085542021-05-21 Case Report: A rare cause of vaginal bleeding at Keren Zonal Referral Hospital, Eritrea Abraha, Million Solomon, Shiden F1000Res Case Report Vaginal bleeding due to leech infestation is a very uncommon but important gynaecological problem. This report presents the case of a 65-year-old woman who presented to Keren Regional Referral Hospital, Eritrea, with vaginal bleeding of two and half weeks duration, dizziness and fatigue. On the day of her admission complete blood count and speculum exam were done and she was diagnosed with anaemia due to cervical leech infestation. Routine speculum exam for vaginal bleeding is recommended in cases with history of holy water or springs visits to prevent unnecessary diagnostic tests and for rapid management. F1000 Research Limited 2021-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8108554/ /pubmed/34026048 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17453.2 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Abraha M and Solomon S https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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