TITLE:
Large number of Fasciola hepatica discovered during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
AUTHORS:
Mohamed Alshekhani, Hiwa Hussein, Taha Karbuli, Kalandar Kasnazan
KEYWORDS:
Fasiolahepatics; Obstructivejaundice; Triclabendazole
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.2 No.2,
May
24,
2013
ABSTRACT: Fascioliasis is a
zoonotic infection of herbiviores, occasionally affecting humans who ingest
fresh water plants. We report a case of a young woman who presented to our
center with vague abdominal discomfort & discovered on abdominal
ultrasound to have gall stones & dilated common bile duct. She was
scheduled for ERCP which revealed a large
number of fasciola worms draining from the common bile duct to the duodenum.