Acute Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding Caused by Ascaris lumbricoides Infection: A Case Report

Ascaris lumbricoides infestation can cause a variety of intestinal complications, but severe gastrointestinal bleeding is rare. A thorough evaluation is needed for travelers and migrants with massive gastrointestinal bleeding, especially in those patients who have undergone multiple upper and lower...

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Autores principales: Barakat, Munsef, Shebani, Ahmed, Rehman, Amin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9621741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36337780
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30935
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description Ascaris lumbricoides infestation can cause a variety of intestinal complications, but severe gastrointestinal bleeding is rare. A thorough evaluation is needed for travelers and migrants with massive gastrointestinal bleeding, especially in those patients who have undergone multiple upper and lower endoscopies with no certain cause. We present a challenging case of massive small bowel bleeding due to Ascaris infection.
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spelling pubmed-96217412022-11-04 Acute Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding Caused by Ascaris lumbricoides Infection: A Case Report Barakat, Munsef Shebani, Ahmed Rehman, Amin Cureus Internal Medicine Ascaris lumbricoides infestation can cause a variety of intestinal complications, but severe gastrointestinal bleeding is rare. A thorough evaluation is needed for travelers and migrants with massive gastrointestinal bleeding, especially in those patients who have undergone multiple upper and lower endoscopies with no certain cause. We present a challenging case of massive small bowel bleeding due to Ascaris infection. Cureus 2022-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9621741/ /pubmed/36337780 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30935 Text en Copyright © 2022, Barakat et al. https://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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Barakat, Munsef
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Acute Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding Caused by Ascaris lumbricoides Infection: A Case Report
title Acute Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding Caused by Ascaris lumbricoides Infection: A Case Report
title_full Acute Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding Caused by Ascaris lumbricoides Infection: A Case Report
title_fullStr Acute Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding Caused by Ascaris lumbricoides Infection: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Acute Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding Caused by Ascaris lumbricoides Infection: A Case Report
title_short Acute Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding Caused by Ascaris lumbricoides Infection: A Case Report
title_sort acute massive gastrointestinal bleeding caused by ascaris lumbricoides infection: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9621741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36337780
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