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Natural killer T cells activated by a lipopeptidophosphoglycan from Entamoeba histolytica are critically important to control amebic liver abscess. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2009
The innate immune response is supposed to play an essential role in the control of amebic liver abscess (ALA), a severe form of invasive amoebiasis due to infection with the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
Hannelore Lotter, Nestor González-Roldán, Buko Lindner, Florian Winau, Armando Isibasi, Martha Moreno-Lafont, Artur J Ulmer, Otto Holst, Egbert Tannich, Thomas Jacobs   +9 more
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Diagnostic difficulty of liver lesion

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2016
Liver abscess is mostly either pyogenic or amebic. Fungal and mycobacterial liver abscesses are rare and mostly associated with immunosuppression. The occurrence of fungal liver abscess with hydatid cyst was never reported previously.
Jayabal Pandiaraja
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Hepatogastric Fistula as a Rare Complication of Pyogenic Liver Abscess: A Case Report. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Hepatogastric fistula is a rare complication of pyogenic liver abscess. We report an 18‐year‐old male with 3 weeks of fever, melena, and epigastric discomfort. Ultrasound showed a contracted gallbladder with wall thickening and sludge without cholelithiasis.
Amirbeigy MK, Amel Shahbaz AP, Sekandari Z, Sheikhalishahi S.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Epidemiology, Clinical Features and Outcome of Liver Abscess: A single Reference Center Experience in Qatar

Oman Medical Journal, 2014
Objective: To describe the etiology, clinical presentation, management and outcome of liver abscess in adult patients admitted at Hamad general hospital, Qatar.
Mushtak Talib Abbas, Fahmi Yousef Khan, Saif A. Muhsin, Baidaa Al-Dehwe, Mohamed Abukamar, Abdel-Naser Elzouki   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hepatoduodenal fistula: A rare complication of liver abscess

Journal of Digestive Endoscopy, 2016
Common complications of amebic liver abscess (ALA) include rupture into the peritoneum, thorax, and pericardium. Rupture into the duodenum is extremely rare. We report a case of ALA rupturing into the duodenum, forming a fistulous tract.
Ravikant Kumar, Pavan Kumar, K. N. Saxena, Manisha Dwivedi   +3 more
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Hypocholesterolemia in Patients with an Amebic Liver Abscess

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.
doaj   +1 more source

Amebic liver abscess

Postgraduate Medicine, 1990
Amebic liver abscess responds readily to appropriate therapy, but diagnosis may be difficult. In the case described, the patient's signs and symptoms were atypical, suggesting a hematologic malignancy. The correct diagnosis was made only after ultrasound revealed a mass in the liver.
D, Mankuta, J, Herman
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Amoebic liver abscess – a cause of acute respiratory distress in an infant: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2009
Introduction The usual presentation of amebic liver abscess in children is extremely variable and unpredictable. It presents with a picture of common pediatric illness that is fever, lethargy, and abdominal pain, and can go on to develop into a rare ...
Saleem Mohammad M
doaj   +1 more source

Prospective of indigenous African wild food plants in alleviation of the severe iron deficiency anaemia in Sub‐Saharan Africa

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 486-498, March 2026.
Iron deficiency anaemia remains a major public health challenge in Sub‐Saharan Africa, where population growth, displacement and limited resources heighten nutritional insecurity. We compiled a list of indigenous African underutilized wild food plants and examined their potential for addressing micronutrient deficiencies.
Eltayb Abdellatef, Yohannes Gedamu Gebre, Petra Bauer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

TNFα-mediated liver destruction by Kupffer cells and Ly6Chi monocytes during Entamoeba histolytica infection.

PLoS Pathogens, 2013
Amebic liver abscess (ALA) is a focal destruction of liver tissue due to infection by the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica (E. histolytica). Host tissue damage is attributed mainly to parasite pathogenicity factors, but massive early accumulation
Elena Helk, Hannah Bernin, Thomas Ernst, Harald Ittrich, Thomas Jacobs, Joerg Heeren, Frank Tacke, Egbert Tannich, Hannelore Lotter   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source