Intestinal Perforation Due to Adult Tapeworm of Taenia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Bhandari, Raju, Chamlagain, Rajan, Sutanto, Edward, Adam, Hammad, Dhungana, Anil, Ali, Aishnath Azna, Piya, Bimochan, Ubaid, Abdulla, and Neumayr, Andreas (2022) Intestinal Perforation Due to Adult Tapeworm of Taenia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports, 15. pp. 1-5.
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Abstract
Taeniasis is an intestinal helminth infection due to adult tapeworms belonging to the genus Taenia. Taeniasis remains a major burden in low-income countries in Asia. We present a case of intestinal perforation caused by adult tapeworm of Taenia in a 50-year-old Nepali male. The patients presented to the hospital with severe abdominal pain and intermittent vomiting. Following clinical presentations and imaging features, gastrointestinal perforation was suspected. Surgical removal of adult tapeworm of Taenia, suspected to be T. saginata or T. asiatica, was carried out during exploratory laparotomy, which was followed by an uneventful postoperative period. In addition to case presentation, we systematically review published case reports on taeniasis-related intestinal perforation. A learning point from this case is clinician should maintain a clinical suspicion of taeniasis as a possible cause of intestinal perforation in endemic areas.
| Item ID: | 74629 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1179-5476 |
| Keywords: | Case report, ileum, intestinal perforation, Taenia saginata, taeniasis |
| Copyright Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage) |
| Date Deposited: | 23 May 2023 23:42 |
| FoR Codes: | 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3207 Medical microbiology > 320704 Medical parasitology @ 100% |
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