An Indigenous Case of Intestinal Capillariasis with Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Korea

We encountered an indigenous case of intestinal capillariasis with protein-losing enteropathy in the Republic of Korea. A 37-year-old man, residing in Sacheon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, admitted to the Gyeongsang National University Hospital (GNUH) due to long-lasting diarrhea, abdominal pain, anasarca,...

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Main Authors:	Jung, Woon Tae, Kim, Hyun Jin, Min, Hyun Ju, Ha, Chang Yoon, Kim, Hong Jun, Ko, Gyung Hyuck, Na, Byoung-Kuk, Sohn, Woon-Mok
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2012
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514425/

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spelling	pubmed-35144252012-12-10 An Indigenous Case of Intestinal Capillariasis with Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Korea Jung, Woon Tae Kim, Hyun Jin Min, Hyun Ju Ha, Chang Yoon Kim, Hong Jun Ko, Gyung Hyuck Na, Byoung-Kuk Sohn, Woon-Mok Case Report We encountered an indigenous case of intestinal capillariasis with protein-losing enteropathy in the Republic of Korea. A 37-year-old man, residing in Sacheon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, admitted to the Gyeongsang National University Hospital (GNUH) due to long-lasting diarrhea, abdominal pain, anasarca, and weight loss. He recalled that he frequently ate raw fish, especially the common blackish goby (Acanthogobius flavimanus) and has never been abroad. Under the suspicion of protein-losing enteropathy, he received various kinds of medical examinations, and was diagnosed as intestinal capillariasis based on characteristic sectional findings of nematode worms in the biopsied small intestine. Adults, juvenile worms, and eggs were also detected in the diarrheic stools collected before and after medication. The clinical symptoms became much better after treatment with albendazole 400 mg daily for 3 days, and all findings were in normal range in laboratory examinations performed after 1 month. The present study is the 6th Korean case of intestinal capillariasis and the 3rd indigenous one in the Republic of Korea. The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2012-12 2012-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3514425/ /pubmed/23230331 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2012.50.4.333 Text en © 2012, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Jung, Woon Tae Kim, Hyun Jin Min, Hyun Ju Ha, Chang Yoon Kim, Hong Jun Ko, Gyung Hyuck Na, Byoung-Kuk Sohn, Woon-Mok
spellingShingle	Jung, Woon Tae Kim, Hyun Jin Min, Hyun Ju Ha, Chang Yoon Kim, Hong Jun Ko, Gyung Hyuck Na, Byoung-Kuk Sohn, Woon-Mok An Indigenous Case of Intestinal Capillariasis with Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Korea
author_facet	Jung, Woon Tae Kim, Hyun Jin Min, Hyun Ju Ha, Chang Yoon Kim, Hong Jun Ko, Gyung Hyuck Na, Byoung-Kuk Sohn, Woon-Mok
author_sort	Jung, Woon Tae
title	An Indigenous Case of Intestinal Capillariasis with Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Korea
title_short	An Indigenous Case of Intestinal Capillariasis with Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Korea
title_full	An Indigenous Case of Intestinal Capillariasis with Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Korea
title_fullStr	An Indigenous Case of Intestinal Capillariasis with Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Korea
title_full_unstemmed	An Indigenous Case of Intestinal Capillariasis with Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Korea
title_sort	indigenous case of intestinal capillariasis with protein-losing enteropathy in korea
description	We encountered an indigenous case of intestinal capillariasis with protein-losing enteropathy in the Republic of Korea. A 37-year-old man, residing in Sacheon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, admitted to the Gyeongsang National University Hospital (GNUH) due to long-lasting diarrhea, abdominal pain, anasarca, and weight loss. He recalled that he frequently ate raw fish, especially the common blackish goby (Acanthogobius flavimanus) and has never been abroad. Under the suspicion of protein-losing enteropathy, he received various kinds of medical examinations, and was diagnosed as intestinal capillariasis based on characteristic sectional findings of nematode worms in the biopsied small intestine. Adults, juvenile worms, and eggs were also detected in the diarrheic stools collected before and after medication. The clinical symptoms became much better after treatment with albendazole 400 mg daily for 3 days, and all findings were in normal range in laboratory examinations performed after 1 month. The present study is the 6th Korean case of intestinal capillariasis and the 3rd indigenous one in the Republic of Korea.
publisher	The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine
publishDate	2012
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514425/
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An Indigenous Case of Intestinal Capillariasis with Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Korea

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