AI Article Synopsis
- Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding is rarely linked to parasitic infections, although some cases have been reported during capsule endoscopy evaluations.
- This study presents two patients who experienced significant gastrointestinal bleeding due to ascariasis, highlighting the challenges in identifying the bleeding lesions.
- The research utilizes MiroCam capsule endoscopy technology to provide high-quality images of the lesions and reviews relevant literature on the topic.
Article Abstract
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding appears to be uncommon in patients with parasites. In spite of that some reports had described this relationship in patients evaluated during capsule endoscopy procedures; the characteristic of the bleeding lesions remains unclear. This paper describes two patients with a massive obscure gastrointestinal bleeding due to ascariasis, using the new capsule endoscopy technology "MiroCam", describing the characteristic of the lesions found in our patients (observed in a better image quality), and reviewing the literature.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124140 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/340869 | DOI Listing |
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