Mosli Mohammed H, Chan Wilson W, Morava-Protzner Izabella, Kuhn Susan M
Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Teaching, Research & Wellness (TRW) Building, Room 3D03-4 (3rd Floor), 3820 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 4Z6; Department of General Medicine and Clinics, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, AB, Canada; Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2016;2016:5863219. doi: 10.1155/2016/5863219. Epub 2016 May 10.
The manifestations of schistosomiasis typically result from the host inflammatory response to parasitic eggs that are deposited in the mucosa of either the gastrointestinal tract or bladder. We present here a case of a 50-year-old gentleman with a rare gastrointestinal presentation of both schistosomal appendicitis and mesenteric thrombosis.