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Early Clinical Response of a Large Amebic Liver Abscess to Eravacycline Prior to Metronidazole Initiation: A Case Report [PDF]
Case Reports in Infectious DiseasesEntamoeba histolytica is an amebic protozoan that is often asymptomatic, with many patients being asymptomatic carriers. However, 10 percent of cases manifest with amebic dysentery and, less commonly, amebic liver abscesses.
Jamal A. Anthony +2 more
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A note on clinical presentations of amebic liver abscess: an overview from 62 Thai patients [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 2002 Background Amebic liver abscess is a tropical disease with a wide spectrum of clinical presentations. Given the often nonspecific nature of the complaints related to amebic abscess, a retrospective review of patients with confirmed disease to recognize ...
Wiwanitkit Viroj
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Annals of Hepatology, 2002 Amebic liver abscess (ALA) highly endemic in most developing tropical countries is being encountered more frequently in other geographical areas maybe secondary to increased travel to areas where the disease is endemic as well as in the homosexual ...
Aldo Torre, MD +1 more
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A note on the prothrombin time abnormality in the patients with amebic liver abscess [PDF]
Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2006 Amebic liver abscess is reported worldwide and can present with a a wide spectrum of clinical manifetations. Similar to the other liver diseases, the prothrombin time abnormality can be seen in the patients with amebic liver abscess.
Viroj Wiwaniikit +2 more
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Hypocholesterolemia in Patients with an Amebic Liver Abscess [PDF]
Gut and Liver, 2014 Background/AimsMany parasites induce changes in the lipid profiles of the host. Cholesterol increases the virulence of Entamoeba histolytica in animal models and in vitro culture.
Arévalo Niño, Katiushka +8 more
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Amebic liver abscess rupture into inferior vena cava with pulmonary thrombo embolism: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case ReportsBackground Vascular complications such as hepatic vein and inferior vena cava thrombus, phlebitis, and extrahepatic biliary obstruction are rare in amebic liver abscesses.
Sripooja Makthala +3 more
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Three Autochthonous Cases of Amoebic Liver Abscess Clustered in a Small Village of Tuscany (Central Italy), a Non-Endemic Area [PDF]
PathogensAmebiasis is a rare condition in industrialised countries but is epidemiologically growing. Clinical manifestations may range from asymptomatic to invasive disease.
Giuseppantonio Maisetta +10 more
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Amebiasis and amebic liver abscess (ALA) continue to be a major fatal disease in developing countries where unhygienic environmental conditions prevail. Between January 1975 and December 1984 there were 60 patients and from January 1985 to December 1994 there were 44 patients with ALA who were diagnosed and treated.
Jackson-Akers JY +2 more
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Clinical Liver Disease, 2015 Watch a video presentation of this article Answer questions and earn CME
Judith A, Anesi, Stephen, Gluckman
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Complication of Amebic Liver Abscess: Biliary Fistula [PDF]
Kosin Medical Journal, 2015 In amebic liver abscess, communication between liver abscess and intrahepatic bile ducts is an uncommon cause of bile leak. This condition can be treated surgically or endoscopically.
Han Wook Chung +4 more
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