Report on 7 Cases of Anisakiasis Involved the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract

Cho, Byung Sup; Moon, Je Woong; Ahn, Jae Ghon; Lee, Byung Chul; Jeon, Ha Young; Shin, Kyung Chul; Lee, In Whan; Kwon, Hak Joong; Lee, Hyang Joo; Kim, Ho Jung; Kim, Kyu Tae; Chang, Suk Il; Choi, Dae Sup

Abstract

The anisakiasis disease that is infected through various kinds of larvae of the anisakis family when sea fish ia eaten uncooked or half-cooked. Sinee Van Thiel, a Netherlander, found in 1960 that anisakis larvae parasitize upon the human intestinal tract of the patients who suffer from ahdomieal pain after eating herrings, there have been a number of similar reports in North America and Japan, and the clinical importance of anisakis larvae for the acute gastrontestinal infection is rising. In general, as raw sea fish is not regarded as a source of parasite infestation, the patients who had eaten it and suffered from acute abdominal pain and vomiting are considered as and to be treated of food poisoning. But it is highly possible that some of them suffer from the acute gastrointestinal symptom caused by anisakis larvae. Thereby we report on 7 examples of anisakiasis taken through endoscopic diagnosis of the patients who have the acute upper abdominal pain after eating raw sea fish.