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Management of Pyogenic Liver Abscess and Empyema as Its Complication [PDF]

, 2005
Pyogenic liver abscess may have serious complications that need specific management. We reported a case of a young male patient aged 24 years old and complained of abdominal enlargement since 2 (two) weeks before.
Lesmana, L. A. (L), Luthariana, L. (Lies), Nasir, U. Z. (Uyainah), Rubangi, S. (Sunhadji), T, R. I. (Retno)   +4 more
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Gigantic hepatic amebic abscess presenting as acute abdomen: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2008
Introduction Amebiasis is a parasitic disease caused by Entamoeba histolytica. It most commonly results in asymptomatic colonization of the gastrointestinal tract, but some patients develop intestinal invasive or extra-intestinal diseases.
Papavramidis TS, Sapalidis K, Pappas D, Karagianopoulou G, Trikoupi A, Souleimanis Ch, Papavramidis ST   +6 more
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Primary amebic pulmonary abscess with concurrent pulmonary adenocarcinoma: A rare presentation

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2023
Amebic lung abscess without involving another system like liver or colon is immensely uncommon. We want to report a case of a 72-year-old woman who presented in emergency with complaints of shortness of breath, loss of weight, right-side chest pain, and ...
Sheetal Verma, Prem Parkash Gupta, Sandeep Nain, Pankaj Kumar Singh   +3 more
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Hepatogastric fistula: A rare complication of liver abscess

Journal of Digestive Endoscopy, 2015
Rupture of amebic liver abscess into stomach is a rare complication. We report a case of a young male presenting with haematemesis due to a rupture of left lobe amebic liver abscess into stomach.
Shrihari Anikhindi, Piyush Ranjan, Munish Sachdeva, Mandhir Kumar   +3 more
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Hepatic Abscess in a Returning Traveler with Crohn’s Disease: Differentiating Amebic from Pyogenic Liver Abscess

Case Reports in Medicine, 2018
Liver abscess is a rare but serious complication of Crohn’s disease. Patients with Crohn’s disease are at risk for pyogenic liver abscesses due to immunosuppressive therapy, fistulous disease, and intraabdominal abscesses.
Daria Gaut, Hannah Shull, Anthony Bejjani, Daniel Kahn   +3 more
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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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Point-of-Care Ultrasound Assessment of Tropical Infectious Diseases—A Review of Applications and Perspectives [PDF]

, 2015
The development of good quality and affordable ultrasound machines has led to the establishment and implementation of numerous point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) protocols in various medical disciplines.
Abdalla, Abdalla Balla, Adler, Balasubramanian, Belard, Bharath Kumar Reddy, Bonnard, Brennan, Brindle, Brunetti, Brunetti, Bukte, Bustinduy, Bustinduy, Carr, Colley, Darge, Debrah, Debrah, Del Carpio, DeVries, Eckert, Eckert, el Scheich, Elia, Elmahdi, Frade, Giordani, Golemanov, Gonzalez, Grobusch, Guerin, Hanscheid, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, Henriquez-Camacho, Heuvelings, Jang, Jang, Janssen, Jeon, Kabaalioglu, King, King, King, Li, Lichtenstein, Luzze, Ma, Ma, Macpherson, Mahmoud, Majid, Mand, Mand, Mand, Mand, Maru, Mateer, Mazur-Melewska, Mekky, Melchionda, Michels, Mirabel, Mohammad, Moore, Moreno, Mortele, Muhtarov, Nabeta, Oliveira, Pereira Junior, Piccoli, Pinto-Silva, Polat Ekinci, Poltera, Quintanilla-Cedillo, Reuter, Richter, Richter, Richter, Rinaldi, Rozycki, Ruiz-Guevara, Shah, Shim, Srikiatkhachorn, Stanley, Stojkovic, Stojkovic, Stoopen, Stothard, Teichmann, Tolsgaard, Torres-Macho, Tufan, Umetsu, van Hoving, von Reyn, Wagatsuma, Wahlers, Wahlers, Weinke, Wu, Zha, Ziraman   +111 more
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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
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Modern management of pyogenic hepatic abscess: a case series and review of the literature [PDF]

, 2011
Background Pyogenic hepatic abscesses are relatively rare, though untreated are uniformly fatal. A recent paradigm shift in the management of liver abscesses, facilitated by advances in diagnostic and interventional radiology, has decreased mortality ...
Helen M Heneghan, Nuala A Healy, Sean T Martin, Ronan S Ryan, Niamh Nolan, Oscar Traynor, Ronan Waldron   +6 more
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