title: [Acute necrotizing pancreatitis and complete atrioventricular block complicating the course of ascaris infection in an adult patient].
abstract: Ascaris lumbricoides, a large round nematode, which causes human ascariasis, is the most prevalent helminth in the world. Ascariasis is usually asymptomatic but can cause serious complications, with a mortality rate of 5%. We report a 55-year-old woman from Comoros who presented with ascariasis complicated by occult cholangitis, severe acute pancreatitis, and transient complete heart-block. Cardiac damage due to migrating ascaris larvae was the likely explanation of the transient heart-block in this patient, although such a complication had never been described previously.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine, centre hospitalier de Mayotte, Mamoudzou, Mayotte. eric.liozon@chu-limoges.fr
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Liozon
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Périnet
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Garou
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Valyi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Théry
mesh_terms: D001196:Ascariasis / Q000150:complications*; D054537:Atrioventricular Block / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D019283:Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing / Q000469:parasitology*