What was discovered during research in the body of a 70-year-old patient in China is as impressive as it is terrifying.

At the end of December 2023, when they performed a cholangioscopy on the man, the doctors discovered moving bodies.

By adjusting the equipment more and fixing the view better, they identified themselves “live flatworms” in the liver field, El Tiempo published in the middle of this first week of January 2024.

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Liver pain made him go to the doctor

The media quoted the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) to report that the septuagenarian went to a health center in Guangzhou to get answers about the pain he was feeling in his liver.

The doctors performed several tests “and diagnosed choledocholithiasis, dilation of the bile duct and an adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon, a form of cancer.”

Considering the medical condition, they suggested “laparoscopic resection of the tumor, in addition to cholecystectomy and cholangioscopy.”

The surprise came during the cholangioscopy, when “they found five flatworms – flatworms – alive and crawling through the bile ducts,” according to the aforementioned Colombian media.

The cholangioscopy he underwent is an endoscopic technique that allows the diagnosis and endoluminal treatment of biliary diseases, they emphasize in Elsevier and Scielo.

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What is the origin of these worms?

Two of the worms were extracted and identified as Clonorchis sinensis, a type of liver parasite, they explain in El Tiempo:

This parasite “is endemic” in East Asia (China, South Korea, North Vietnam, Taiwan and parts of Russia), emphasizes Manuel MSD.

They also report that clonorchiasis is an infection caused by Clonorchis sinensis.

“The infection is usually contracted by ingesting undercooked freshwater fish”They dived deeper.

What symptoms do you have? Most infections are asymptomatic, but when symptoms do occur they include pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen, indigestion, fatigue, and diarrhea. (JO)