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Hepatic Visceral Larva Migrans Causing Hepatic Venous Thrombosis and Prolonged Fever.

Indian Pediatrics 2017 October 16
BACKGROUND: Visceral larva migrans may present with systemic symptoms such as fever, hepatomegaly, pneumonitis or ocular symptoms.

CASE CHARACTERISTICS: A 7-year-old girl with fever, pain abdomen and persistent eosinophilia. Imaging and histopathology were suggestive of visceral larva migrans.

MESSAGE: The diagnosis of visceral larva migrans is often delayed since similar symptoms of fever, hepatomegaly and peripheral eosinophilia occur in more common and identifiable tropical parasitic and non-parasitic diseases.

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