A case of acute gastric anisakiasis provoking severe clinical problems by multiple infection.
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-like moving larva was found in the great curvature of upper body on the following day. On the basis of their morphology, the worms were identified as the 3rd stage larvae of Anisakis simplex. This case is acute gastric anisakiasis provoking severe clinical problems by the multiple infection and the greatest number of anisakid larvae found in a patient in Korea.
Noh
Ji Hun
JH
Department of Internal Medicine, Kosin Medical College, Busan 602-703, Korea.
Kim
Bong- Jin
B
Kim
Sun Mee
SM
Ock
Mee- Sun
M
Park
Moo In
MI
Goo
Ja Young
JY
D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D017129:Anisakiasis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000601:surgery; D017163:Anisakis / Q000254:growth & development*; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery