Successful Management of Biliary Ascariasis in a High-Endemic Zone and Low-Resource Setting in Ethiopia
Ascariasis lumbricoides is a roundworm that causes one of the most common soil-transmitted helminth infections worldwide. Ascariasis is typically found in the jejunum and transmitted through the intake of Ascaris lumbricoides eggs through food and water. Initially, ascariasis can cause pulmonary sym...
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| author | Yonathan Aliye Asfaw Girum Tesfaye Asrat Tesfanew Bekele Uddo Bethlehem Aliye Asfaw Ayush Anand Helen Huang Eden Demessie Firew NagaSpurthy Reddy Anugu |
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| description | Ascariasis lumbricoides is a roundworm that causes one of the most common soil-transmitted helminth infections worldwide. Ascariasis is typically found in the jejunum and transmitted through the intake of Ascaris lumbricoides eggs through food and water. Initially, ascariasis can cause pulmonary symptoms during the first 6–8 weeks of ingestion and can progress to serious complications of intestinal obstruction and hepatobiliary manifestations. Biliary ascariasis is a complication of ascariasis migration from the jejunum to the hepatobiliary tree and can present with a variety of symptoms ranging from biliary colic to more serious features such as acute cholangitis. Though the mortality rate is low, limited resources for management can make it challenging to manage. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0d7b363badfc44d0a1b447f3e9ba54f22025-08-20T03:54:24ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66332022-01-01202210.1155/2022/8201398Successful Management of Biliary Ascariasis in a High-Endemic Zone and Low-Resource Setting in EthiopiaYonathan Aliye Asfaw0Girum Tesfaye Asrat1Tesfanew Bekele Uddo2Bethlehem Aliye Asfaw3Ayush Anand4Helen Huang5Eden Demessie Firew6NagaSpurthy Reddy Anugu7University of Gondar Collage of Medicine and Health SciencesUniversity of Gondar Collage of Medicine and Health SciencesAddis Ababa UniversityUniversity of Gondar Collage of Medicine and Health SciencesB.P. Koirala Institute of Health SciencesRoyal Collage of Surgeons in IrelandMekelle UniversityMediciti Institute of Medical SciencesAscariasis lumbricoides is a roundworm that causes one of the most common soil-transmitted helminth infections worldwide. Ascariasis is typically found in the jejunum and transmitted through the intake of Ascaris lumbricoides eggs through food and water. Initially, ascariasis can cause pulmonary symptoms during the first 6–8 weeks of ingestion and can progress to serious complications of intestinal obstruction and hepatobiliary manifestations. Biliary ascariasis is a complication of ascariasis migration from the jejunum to the hepatobiliary tree and can present with a variety of symptoms ranging from biliary colic to more serious features such as acute cholangitis. Though the mortality rate is low, limited resources for management can make it challenging to manage.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8201398 |
| spellingShingle | Yonathan Aliye Asfaw Girum Tesfaye Asrat Tesfanew Bekele Uddo Bethlehem Aliye Asfaw Ayush Anand Helen Huang Eden Demessie Firew NagaSpurthy Reddy Anugu Successful Management of Biliary Ascariasis in a High-Endemic Zone and Low-Resource Setting in Ethiopia Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | Successful Management of Biliary Ascariasis in a High-Endemic Zone and Low-Resource Setting in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Successful Management of Biliary Ascariasis in a High-Endemic Zone and Low-Resource Setting in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Successful Management of Biliary Ascariasis in a High-Endemic Zone and Low-Resource Setting in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Successful Management of Biliary Ascariasis in a High-Endemic Zone and Low-Resource Setting in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Successful Management of Biliary Ascariasis in a High-Endemic Zone and Low-Resource Setting in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | successful management of biliary ascariasis in a high endemic zone and low resource setting in ethiopia |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8201398 |
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