Abstract

VALDIVIESO F, Patricia; CETRARO C, Delfina  and  ANGULO V, Diana. Gastrointestinal bleeding in newborn with hookworm, National Hospital San Bartolome: Case report. Rev. gastroenterol. Perú [online]. 2017, vol.37, n.1, pp.82-86. ISSN 1022-5129.

We present the case of gastrointestinal bleeding uncinariasis in a newborn baby of 27 days old from anindigenous town of Tangoshiri, located in the province of La Convencion, department of Cuzco, who enters to the service of neonatology National Teaching Hospital San Bartolome in Lima, Peru, with decompensated severe anemia. The baby has melena since the fourth day of his birth, which increased in the third week of life, with hematocrit of 12%. She was hospitalized, receiving blood transfusion and she continue with gastrointestinal bleeding, so she underwent an upper endoscopy that showed multiple larvae Ancylostoma duodenale. She and her mother were treated with mebendazole. Afterwords they had stool examinations without the presence of the parasite.

Keywords : Gastrointestinal hemorrhage; Ancylostoma; Hookworms; Infant, newborn.

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