Abstract

Ascariasis is one of the most common and severe parasitic infections and now as many as a quarter of the world's population are infected. According to the data of World Health Organization (WHO) up to 90 % of the world population have been reported to be infected with parasitic diseases irrespective of their life quality level. Ascariasis is most prevalent in the Middle East countries, India, Africa, North America, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, Northern Europe. We have analyzed the treatment of the ascariasis surgical complications of the abdominal cavity in 71 patients having been operated from 2002 to 2005 in the Surgery Department of Al-Nasr Hospital, the town of Ibb, Yemen. In all the cases the surgery was supplemented with antiparasitic Albendazole chemotherapy. The dynamics of the process was controlled by analyzing the morphological data.

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