Gastrointestinal: Acute gastric anisakiasis
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Gastric Anisakiasis with a Gastric Ulcer
An 82-year-old man was referred to our hospital due to epigastric pain and anemia. Emergent esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed a regularly shaped ulcer on the lesser curvature of the gastric body (Picture 1). Anisakis larvae were found in the center of the ulcer and were removed with a forceps (Picture 2). The patient had eaten raw squid two days prior to his hospital visit. There are a few re...
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A man in his 70s presented to the emergency unit for hematemesis. His recent blood test showed normal liver and renal function, and serum anti-Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) IgG antibody was negative. He took neither steroids nor nonsteroidal anti-infl ammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Emergency endoscopy revealed a bleeding gastric ulcer in the greater curvature of the gastric body (Fig. 1A). Endoscop...
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Gastric anisakiasis is a parasitic disease caused by the gastric mucosal penetration of the Anisakis larvae ingested with raw fish. Acute gastric anisakiasis is diagnosed by the endoscopic visualization of Anisakis larvae along with mucosal edema, erythema, hemorrhage, and/or an ulcer, whereas chronic anisakiasis is often observed as a localized tumor commonly occurring in the submucosal layer,...
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Acute gastric anisakiasis with multiple anisakid larvae infection is reported. A 68-year-old woman residing in Busan, Korea, had epigastric pain with severe vomiting about 5 hours after eating raw anchovies. Four nematode larvae penetrating the gastric mucosae in the great curvature of the middle body and fundus were found and removed during gastro-endoscopic examination. Another one thread-lik...
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Clinicians can be forgiven for thinking of anisakiasis as a rare condition low in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain. Gastrointestinal anisakiasis is a zoonotic parasitic disease caused by consumption of raw or undercooked seafood infected with nematodes of the genus Anisakis. Even though the reported cases indicate that this is a rare disease, the true incidence of the disease could ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0815-9319
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2005.04009.x