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Maximal diameter of liver abscess independently predicts prolonged hospitalization and poor prognosis in patients with pyogenic liver abscess

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background/aims This study aimed to investigate the factors associated with prolonged hospital stay and in-hospital mortality in patients with pyogenic liver abscess.
Chang Hun Lee, Hoon Gil Jo, Eun Young Cho, Jae Sun Song, Gum Mo Jung, Yong Keun Cho, Seung Young Seo, Seong Hun Kim, Sang Wook Kim, Seung Ok Lee, Soo Teik Lee, In Hee Kim   +11 more
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Liver abscess caused by fish bone perforation of stomach wall treated by laparoscopic surgery: a case report

Surgical Case Reports, 2019
Background Formation of a liver abscess due to gastrointestinal perforation by a foreign body is rare. In addition, there are few case reports on laparoscopic surgical treatment of a liver abscess caused by perforation of the gastrointestinal tract by a ...
Tomoaki Bekki, Nobuaki Fujikuni, Kazuaki Tanabe, Hironobu Amano, Toshio Noriyuki, Masahiro Nakahara   +5 more
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Amoebic liver abscess [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2022
A 63-year-old Aboriginal fisherman presented with fever and right hypochondriac pain for one week, preceded by nonbloody diarrhea two days prior.
Chee Yik Chang, Anuradha P. Radhakrishnan   +1 more
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Amebic liver abscess by Entamoeba histolytica

World Journal of Clinical Cases, 2022
Amebic liver abscesses (ALAs) are the most commonly encountered extraintestinal manifestation of human invasive amebiasis, which results from Entamoeba histolytica (E. histolytica) spreading extraintestinally.
D. Usuda, Shiho Tsuge, Riki Sakurai, K. Kawai, Shun Matsubara, Risa Tanaka, Makoto Suzuki, Hayabusa Takano, Shintaro Shimozawa, Yuta Hotchi, Shungo Tokunaga, Ippei Osugi, Risa Katou, Sakurako Ito, Kentaro Mishima, Akihiko Kondo, Keiko Mizuno, Hiroki Takami, Takayuki Komatsu, Jiro Oba, Tomohisa Nomura, Manabu Sugita   +21 more
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Genetic Diversity and Pathogenic Features in Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates from Patients with Pyogenic Liver Abscess and Pneumonia

Microbiology spectrum, 2022
While Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common cause of nosocomial and community-acquired infections, including pneumonia and pyogenic liver abscess, little is known about the population structure of this bacterium.
Lin Gan, Chao Yan, J. Cui, Guan-hua Xue, Hanyu Fu, B. Du, Hanqing Zhao, Junxia Feng, Yanling Feng, Zheng Fan, Pang Mao, Tongtong Fu, Ziying Xu, Shuheng Du, Shiyu Liu, Rui Zhang, Qun Zhang, Nannan Li, X. Cui, Xiaoran Li, Yao Zhou, Lei Huang, Jing Yuan   +22 more
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Liver Abscess: Complications and Treatment

Clinical Liver Disease, 2021
Liver abscess is an inflammatory spaceoccupying lesion of the liver caused by infectious agents. Amoebic liver abscess (ALA) and pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) are its two predominant causes.
Sanchit Sharma, V. Ahuja
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Pediatric Liver Abscess: Trends in the Incidence, Etiology, and Outcomes Based on 20-Years of Experience at a Tertiary Center

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020
Background: Liver abscess is an important but relatively rare disease in children. This study investigated the clinical characteristics of eligible patients at a referral tertiary center over the past two decades.
P. Yeh, Chien-Chang Chen, M. Lai, Hung-Yu Yeh, H. Chao   +4 more
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Fusobacterium necrophorum subsp. necrophorum Liver Abscess with Pylephlebitis: An Abdominal Variant of Lemierre's Syndrome

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2020
Liver abscess associated with suppurative portal vein thrombosis (pylephlebitis) secondary to Fusobacterium necrophorum has been rarely reported. It is considered to be an abdominal variant of Lemierre's syndrome associated with significant morbidity and
Nataša Radovanovič, Igor Dumic, M. Veselinovic, S. Burger, Tamara Milovanović, Charles W. Nordstrom, E. Niendorf, P. Ramanan   +7 more
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Liver abscess caused by fish bone perforation of Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report

BMC Surgery, 2020
Background Liver abscess due to gastrointestinal perforation by foreign bodies is rare. Furthermore, there are few case reports of liver abscess via the portal vein caused by perforation of the lower gastrointestinal tract by a foreign body.
Seiji Natsuki, Yasuhito Iseki, Hishashi Nagahara, Tatsunari Fukuoka, Masatsune Shibutani, Masaichi Ohira   +5 more
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Clinical characteristics and management of 1572 patients with pyogenic liver abscess: A 12‐year retrospective study

Liver international (Print), 2020
Pyogenic liver abscesses (PLA) are space‐occupying lesions in the liver that produce high morbidity and mortality. The clinical characteristics and prognosis of abscesses is different depending on the bacterial culture results and require different ...
Dalong Yin, Changyong Ji, Shugeng Zhang, Jiabei Wang, Zhaoyang Lu, Xuan Song, Hongchi Jiang, W. Lau, Lianxin Liu   +8 more
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