Acute Ascariasis Pancreatitis in Children at the “Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá” Hospital, Maracaibo, State of Zulia, Venezuela

• Main Authors: Alirio Quintero Victoria, David Torres Farías, María Villalobos Beuses, María Nápoles, Lesbia Pérez, Rafael Villalobos Perozo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Zulia,Facultad de Medicina,Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales 2008
• Subjects: Pancreatitis aguda; ascariasis; niños; factores predictivos; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Aguda; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/427caea8d5db4f778b505e52ebc31232

The Acute Pancreatitis is a rare disease in children; their causes depend on the studied population, and are differents in the developed countries and the tropical and habitually underdeveloped countries, where the erratic migration of Ascaris lumbricoides is their main cause (Ascariasis Acute Pancreatitis). The Ascariasis, the soil-borne helminthiasis produced by the parasitism of the small bowel by the adult forms of A. lumbricoides, represents, along with the Trichiuriasis, the more frequent intestinal helminthiasis in our country. We present the clinical and epidemiologists characteristics of 8 children, 4 boys and 4 girls,with a rank of age of 5 to 8 years that were admitted in the Hospital “Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá” ofMaracaibo; Zulia state; Venezuela,with Ascariasis Acute Pancreatitis, in a period of 10 years. The average of age was of 7 years, with status socioeconomic, according to the Graffar, of level V. The 100% of cases had passed of worms inmouth. A discriminate analysis determined that the predictive factors for the Ascariasis Acute Pancreatitis are the school age, undernourishment and the passes of worms in mouth. It is recommended that to all children in school age that complain of abdominal pain and appear with these factors, determination of serum amylase and abdominal ultrasonography should be made to them.