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Case Report: Paragonimiasis Presenting with Pericardial Tamponade.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
July 2019
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
We report an unusual case of paragonimiasis in a Nepali patient presenting with massive pericardial effusion and pericardial tamponade. The patient reported neither the consumption of crabs or crayfish nor the consumption of wild animal meat, which are the usual sources of infection. It is suspected that the source of infection was instead the ingestion of raw live slugs as part of a traditional medicine treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors report a case of coinfection of pulmonary paragonimiasis and pulmonary tuberculosis which is an uncommon coinfection. The patient presented with a one-week history of nonmassive hemoptysis about 1 month after completion of treatment for smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (sputum polymerase chain reaction positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis). She lived in Nakhon Nayok province and reported taking raw crabs from time to time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe diagnosis of cutaneous paragonimiasis after the external migration of the parasite from a punch biopsy site.
JAAD Case Rep
September 2015
Department of Dermatology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China.
[Live paragonimiasis as liver cancer with multiple abdominal metastases: a case report].
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Pleuropulmonary infection by Paragonimus westermani in the United States: a rare cause of Eosinophilic pneumonia after ingestion of live crabs.
Am J Surg Pathol
May 2011
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Infections caused by the parasite Paragonimus westermani are endemic to Southeast Asia. Most infections reported in the United States are among immigrants who acquired the disease abroad. Due to the nonspecific nature of its presentation and rarity in the United States, the diagnosis may first be suggested by the pathologist on biopsy review.
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