Abstract

NINO, Leslie et al. Infestación de mucosa gástrica por Strongyloides Stercoralis y su correlación con hallazgos endoscópicos: presentación de un caso clínico y revisión. Gen [online]. 2009, vol.63, n.1, pp.65-67. ISSN 0016-3503.

Strongyloidiasis(Ss) is an intestinal parasitosys of global distribution, usually causing few symptoms although can occasionally cause severe intestinal manifestations, as well as invasive enteritis and hyperinfection in immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients. Gastric and duodenal biopsies are rarely used, their sensitivity increases in the presence of hyperinfection (up 90%), even when compared with the conventional coprologic methods, so endoscopy can be seen as a marker of severity, allowing to establish the diagnosis and characteristics of lesions in the gastrointestinal tract. The following case is about a 52-year-old male with epigastric pain, flatulence and belching, nausea, vomiting and acute watery diarrhea. At physical examination there was pain at the epigastrium and left hemiabdomen. Para - clinical findings revealed eosinophilia; endoscopy report: Antral Nodular gastropathy with the biopsy reporting Ss gastric infestation. Treatment with Albendazole 400mg / d for 3 days was indicated, improving the symptoms. Gastric mucosal infestation by Ss is a rare finding.

Keywords : Strongyloids stercoralys; gastric mucosa infestation; endoscopic findings.