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Doctors can take out some worms easily from human beings without greater concern. Here is a shocking medical case, which can be rightly said as miracle, that a farmer got admitted in hospital for heart surgery, who under gone for CT scan, in which the radiologists and doctors found some abnormal condition.
The miracle they found in the report was showed lesions from head to toe, resembling gun-pellets. Hundreds of ‘pork tapeworms’ (Taenia solium), swimming around every major organ system in his body, which became major issue than his bye-pass surgery.
The surgical team headed by Dr J Amalorpavanathan, senior vascular surgeon, had admitted P Palani, from Reddiyar Palam village in Tiruvannamalai, last November. Palani was diagnosed with an aorto iliac occlusion – a block in one of the large arteries that supply blood to the hind limbs. He had been referred from a government hospital to RGGGH as they could not do the surgery there .“We were readying the patient for surgery when we saw this nest of tapeworms everywhere in his body. We did not know what they were, so we roped in the chiefs of radiology, general medicine and neurology, who eventually diagnosed it,” he said. It turned out to be cysticercosis — an infestation of pork tapeworms throughout Palani’s skin and muscles.
If the pork is consumed without cooking well enough, the worms would lay and hatch larvae inside the body and multiply abundantly, causing neurological issues and seizures, which need not to act immediately.
Doctors pumped full drugs to kill some of the worms, “We could not do the surgery as it may have caused anaphylactic shock. Hence the patient was given a drug called albenbazole and steroids and discharged,” doctors said.
According to the doctors, the patient got re-admitted in the hospital on December 21, after the number of tapeworms had reduced, and they did the surgery.
Dr J Amalorpavanathan, senior vascular surgeon, said “We placed an artificial dacron graft in the place of the faulty artery and now he can walk normally. The blood flow to the limbs have been restored and of course the number of worms had also come down,”
-Kannamsai
