Hookworm infestation is not an uncommon cause of obscure occult and overt gastrointestinal bleeding in an endemic area: A study using capsule endoscopy

Indian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 463-467

  Ghoshal, Uday C ^a   Venkitaramanan, Arvind ^a   Verma, Abhai ^a   Misra, Asha ^a   Saraswat, Vivek A ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Anemia; Etiology; Helminthiasis; Parasite; Small intestine

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIANEMIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; THALIDOMIDE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DENGUE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PEPTIC ULCER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUBERCULOSIS; COMPLICATION; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; INDIA; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTICS; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955182080     PISSN: 02548860     EISSN: 09750711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12664-015-0611-2     Document Type: Article

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