| Journal: | Revista médica del Hospital General de México |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000439512 |
| ISSN: | 0185-1063 |
| Authors: | Giraldo Forero, Julio C1 Muñoz Niño, Laura A1 Coronado Castiblanco, Karen V1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Escuela de Medicina, Bogotá. Colombia |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Season: | Oct-Dic |
| Volumen: | 82 |
| Number: | 4 |
| Pages: | 215-220 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | Hookworms, cosmopolitan geohelmintiasis by Ancylostoma duodenale, and Necator americanus infect more than 1 billion people. Objective: The aim of this study was to present a clinical case of severe iron anemia and literature review report. Materials and methods: This was a descriptive study with a review of the clinical history and literature. Results: A 19-year-old patient, who was referred to the Hospital Militar Central, presented with paraclinical signs showing severe anemia; abdominal pain for 3 weeks, with emesis and fetid liquid stools, with mucus, without blood, asthenia, adynamia, and feeling light-headed; generalized asymptomatic physical examination with pallor, tachycardia, and with the presence of low intensity systolic murmur in the aortic focus. He was diagnosed with severe microcytic hypochromic heterogeneous anemia with a probable ferropenic origin. He got a transfusion of red blood cells and was managed with o-meprazole, ferrous sulfate, and albendazole. Conclusion: In Colombia, the prevalence of hookworms is 13%, iron deficiency, 4.9%, and iron deficiency anemia in school children, 0.6% |
| Disciplines: | Medicina |
| Keyword: | Parasitología, Hematología, Ancilostomiasis, Anemia ferropriva, Ancylostoma duodenale, Necator americanus |
| Keyword: | Parasitology, Hematology, Anncylostomyasis, Iron deficiency anemia, Ancylostoma duodenale, Necator americanus |
| Full text: | https://www.hospitalgeneral.mx/frame_esp.php?id=44 |
