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Ascariasis—Its Complications, Unusual Presentations and Surgical Approaches
- Source :
- Southern Medical Journal. 70:176-178
- Publication Year :
- 1977
- Publisher :
- Southern Medical Association, 1977.
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Abstract
- Serious complications of ascariasis are varied and occur at all stages of worm development. The acute condition within the abdomen heralds the presence of intestinal, pancreatic, or biliary tract obstruction secondary to the physical presence of the adult parasites. Larvae may be responsible for acute respiratory disease, either as a direct allergic phenomenon or as a pneumonic infiltrative process secondary to fellow traveler bacteria. Deposition of ova in the liver allows for intrahepatic and pericholangitic abscesses with resultant parenchymal destruction and scarring. Though primary therapy is medical, specific indications for surgical intervention are discussed. These unusual but life-threatening sequelae are typified in the case presentation of a critically ill child.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Liver Diseases, Parasitic
Biliary Tract Diseases
Movement
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Acute respiratory disease
Case presentation
Primary therapy
Biliary tract obstruction
Ascariasis
medicine
Humans
Surgical approach
Critically ill
business.industry
Ascaris
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Pancreatitis
Child, Preschool
Abdomen
Female
business
Intestinal Obstruction
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00384348
- Volume :
- 70
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Southern Medical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c44c06489a88852afed106c74a7d6570