Hook worm caused chronic anemia found during the procedure of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: A case report

Abstract

Background: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding with complicated factors is always difficult to find the primary origin. Case presentation: Here we present a case of a 74-year-old male farmer suffered from acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by gastric ulcer and Mallory-Weiss syndrome and chronic anemia which was at last found caused by hook worm infection. Conclusion: It tells us that considering multi-possibility when can not explain the symptom with monophyletism is very important for clinicians. © 2009 Zhao et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.