Liver abscesses caused by visceral larva migrans: Aimless wanderer separated from the host-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Liver abscesses caused by visceral larva migrans: Aimless wanderer separated from the host

Published:2022-08-01 Issue:1 Volume:53 Page:183-186
ISSN:0049-4755
Container-title:Tropical Doctor
language:en
Short-container-title:Trop Doct

Author:

Osama Md Ali¹^ORCID,Dhawan Shashi²^ORCID,Ranjan Piyush³,Singhvi Suresh⁴

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pathology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India

2. Department of Histopathology, Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi, India

3. Institute of Liver Gastroenterology and Pancreatico Biliary Sciences, Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi, India

4. Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation, Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi, India

Abstract

Visceral larva migrans (VLM) is a systemic zoonotic parasitic disease caused by migration of the second stage larva through viscera of humans. Despite being a foremost public health problem in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as India, larva migrans remains an untended zoonosis. Here, we report two cases of VLM who presented with fever and abdominal pain for a prolonged duration. On further investigation, marked peripheral eosinophilia with multiple confluent necrotizing eosinophilic granulomas were identified on histopathological examination of the liver.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00494755221116723

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