Morbidity and mortality due to Ascaris-induced intestinal obstruction
dc.contributor.author | de Silva, N.R. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Guyatt, H.L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Bundy, D.A.P. | en_US |
dc.creator.corporateauthor | Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-29T09:15:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-10-29T09:15:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | en_US |
dc.description | Indexed in MEDLINE | |
dc.description.abstract | We examined epidemiological aspects of Ascaris-induced intestinal obstruction (AI-IO) through analysis of published reports on the subject. In 9 studies of > or = 100 patients admitted to hospital due to ascariasis, intestinal obstruction was the single most common complication and accounted for 38-87.5% of all complications (weighted mean 72%). The proportion of intestinal obstruction caused by ascariasis was identified in 14 studies from 7 countries with varying degrees of endemic ascariasis. Using relevant data on the duration of the study, the number of beds in the reporting hospital, and the number of hospital beds/1000 population in the area, the number of cases of AI-IO/year/1000 population was estimated from 11 studies. Both the proportion of AI-IO (range 0-0.71) and the number of cases of AI-IO/year/1000 population (range 0-0.25) were significantly related, in a non-linear manner, to the local prevalence of ascariasis (range 0.01-0.92). In 12 studies of > or = 30 patients with AI-IO, the case fatality rates ranged from 0 to 8.6% (weighted mean 5.7%). The mean age of patients with AI-IO was < or = 5 years in 6 of 7 studies in which age was specified. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 1997; 91(1): pp.31-36 | en_US |
dc.identifier.department | Parasitology | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-9203 (Print) | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1878-3503 (Electronic) | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1320 | |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en_US |
dc.subject | Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic | en_US |
dc.subject | Ascariasis-epidemiology | en_US |
dc.subject | Ascaris lumbricoides | en_US |
dc.subject | Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic-epidemiology | en_US |
dc.subject | Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic-mortality | en_US |
dc.subject | Intestinal Obstruction-epidemiology | en_US |
dc.subject | Meta-Analysis | en_US |
dc.title | Morbidity and mortality due to Ascaris-induced intestinal obstruction | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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