Pitanga Lukashok Hannah, Robles-Jara Carlos, Robles-Medranda Carlos
Gastroenterologia y Endoscopia Division, Instituto Ecuatoriano de Enfermedades Digestivas (IECED), OMNI Hospital, Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo (UEES), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Diagn Ther Endosc. 2011;2011:340869. doi: 10.1155/2011/340869. Epub 2011 Jun 1.
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding appears to be uncommon in patients with parasites. In spite of that some reports had described this relationship in patients evaluated during capsule endoscopy procedures; the characteristic of the bleeding lesions remains unclear. This paper describes two patients with a massive obscure gastrointestinal bleeding due to ascariasis, using the new capsule endoscopy technology "MiroCam", describing the characteristic of the lesions found in our patients (observed in a better image quality), and reviewing the literature.