Korean J Gastrointest Endosc.  1993 Dec;13(4):693-696.

A Case of Gastric Anisakiasis Causing Severe Gastric Ulcer Bleeding

• Lee SH
• Sin HG
• Seol SY
• Chung JM

Abstract

Anisakiasis is a parasitic infectious disease caused by eating raw, infected fish. It causes severe abdominal pain-like acute abdomen, but not fatal. Anisakiasis was firstly reported by van Thiel et al. in 1960 in Netherlands and it has subsequently been reported in the Netherlands, Japan, the United states, Korea as well as other nations. Because Koreans like eating raw fish, the anisakiasis of the stomach was occasionally reported, but the case of severe gastric bleeding was very rare. So we report one case of gastric ulcer bleeding due to gastric anisakis larva proven by endoscopy and gastric resection.

Keyword

Gastric anisakiasis; Bleeding

MeSH Terms

Abdomen, Acute
Anisakiasis*
Anisakis
Communicable Diseases
Eating
Endoscopy
Hemorrhage*
Japan
Korea
Larva
Netherlands
Stomach
Stomach Ulcer*
United States