Dr. Nguyễn Xuân Tuấn, from the Đà Nẵng General Hospital checks the patient. Photo courtesy Đà Nẵng General Hospital

ĐÀ NẴNG — Doctors from General Hospital of Đà Nẵng have successful removed a liver parasite from a woman’s bile duct. 

Dr. Nguyễn Xuân Tuấn said the 64-year-old patient, from Quảng Nam Province, was taken to the hospital with stomach ache and high fever.

A scan showed an object struck in the patient's bile duct.

And Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) was performed to remove the parasite which was 30mm long and 10mm wide from the patient’s bile tube.

Dr. Tuấn said it’s a rare case in central Việt Nam and the first case in Đà Nẵng.

Doctors warned that local people living in rural and mountainous area could be infected if they eat uncooked foods or drink water from streams. — VNS