ABSTRACT

Ascaris lumbricoides (A. lumbricoides) with which one billion people around the world is infected is also widely seen in Turkey. This case report presents an ascariasis infection which displayed typical radiological findings in Kocaeli, a non-endemic region of Turkey. The patient was admitted to hospital with symptoms of heavy abdominal pain, nausea-vomiting and weakness. The symptoms had started weakly three weeks earlier and the patient had applied to a private health care center. After a through examination with several appropriate tests including a barium small-bowel enema, a morphological finding similar to helminth was observed filling the lumen of the jejunum. When rectal swabs were examined A. lumbricoides oocytes were discovered. The patient was treated for two days with nasogastric drainage, piperazine (3.5 gr/day) in addition to a supportive therapy. The patient was surgically diagnosed to have a jejunal obstruction due to ascariasis.

Keywords: Ascaris lumbricoides, intestinal obstruction