Hookworm and Intestinal Abnormalities

Hookworm Infection Caused Acute Intestinal Bleeding Diagnosed by Capsule: A Case Report and Literature Review

Hookworm infections are rare causes of acute gastrointestinal bleeding. We report a middle aged man with primary nephrotic syndrome and pulmonary embolism. During the treatment with steroids and anticoagulants, the patient presented acute massive hemorrhage of the gastrointestinal tract. The results of gastroscopy showed red worms in the duodenum. Colonoscopy and CT angiogram of abdomen were un...

Small-intestinal and Gastric Abnormalities in Ulcerative Colitis.

RetLinal Phototherapy-Ingram et al. MEDICAL JOURNAL 827 damage to the tissues. The application of this form of therapy by an ophthalmoscope produces new technical problems, but when these are adequately solved it could lead to a wider use of phototherapy. The history of laser development is reviewed very briefly. The laser ophthalmoscope designed in Newcastle upon Tyne is described. The present...

Hookworm Infection

Detection of Hookworm Eggs

IN the routine examination of stools for hookworm eggs the work of the .Rockefeller International Health Board has proved that the centrifuge increases the positive findings by just over ten per cent. This has been proved independently by the workers in Trinidad and in British Guiana their results being, curiously enough, identical within one place of decimals. It is obvious on consideration th...

Abnormalities in intestinal electrolyte transport in congenital chloridorrhoea.

An investigation of small intestinal electrolyte transport was performed in a subject with congenital chloridorrhoea using a constant perfusion technique. The results indicate that the diarrhoea was not due to an abnormally high rate of secretion of fluid into the duodenum, and transport of electrolytes and glucose was normal in the jejunum. In contrast there was a marked abnormality of electro...