Usefulness of ultrasound in the diagnosis of lumbricoid ascaris. Case Report and Literature Review

Ismael Vargas Gallego, Jhossmar Cristians Auza-Santivañez, Ariel Sosa Remón, Eloy Paycho Anagua, Marco Antonio Gumucio Villarroel, Ritdber Alfredo Quispe Sarmiento and Mildred Ericka Kubatz La Madrid

Multidisciplinar (Montevideo), 2024, vol. 2, 99

Abstract: Introduction. The World Health Organization (WHO) points out that more than a third of the world's population is infected by one or more parasites. Ascariasis is the most prevalent parasitic disease in the world, with approximately 664 million people infested. Clinical case. A 22-year-old female patient enters the emergency department with general malaise, with worsening symptoms in recent days, intense abdominal pain, associated with nausea and uncontrollable vomiting. She also reports non-elimination of gas and absence of bowel movements. . An emergency ultrasound is requested, it reports the stomach with the presence of a linear, tubular echogenic image that moves in different directions. Discussion. The widespread use of ultrasound in Emergency Departments for the diagnosis of acute abdomen, as well as in the laboratory, allowed us to reach the presumptive diagnosis of temporary biliary obstruction due to A. lumbricoides, in addition, the presence of jaundice, direct hyperbilirubinemia and discrete elevation gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT); findings that could direct the exploration of the bile duct during the surgical procedure. Conclusions. The importance of the clinical case lies in the use of abdominal ultrasound as a diagnostic method for Ascaris Lumbricoides. The use of ultrasound in emergency services is essential in the presence of an acute abdomen, and in any patient who presents acute biliary symptoms, always think about this pathology

Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:dbk:multid:v:2:y:2024:i::p:99:id:1062486agmu202499

DOI: 10.62486/agmu202499

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Multidisciplinar (Montevideo) from AG Editor
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Javier Gonzalez-Argote ().