Hepatotomy as a Treatment for Hepatic Abscess

Optimal treatment of hepatic abscess.

Many treatment strategies have been proposed for pyogenic liver abscesses; however, the indications for liver resection for treatment have not been studied in a systematic manner. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the role of surgical treatment in pyogenic abscesses and to determine an optimal treatment algorithm. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all patients who had a ...

Hepatic Abscess Secondarily Infected: Penicillin Treatment

The list of organisms sensitive to penicillin 18 growing, and it is likely that some organisms 0riginally classed as non-susceptible may be brought within its sphere of influence, with 'variations in the technique of administration. The following case is of interest in that two ?f the organisms concerned have been regarded almost completely insensitive, and yet in this ^stance seem to have been...

Fish bone-induced hepatic abscess: medical treatment.

We report a case of a 59-year-old man admitted for acute myocardial infarction. He subsequently spiked a high-grade fever on the second day after percutaneous coronary intervention. Computed tomography imaging of the abdomen revealed a hepatic abscess secondary to gastrointestinal perforation by a fish bone. Medical therapy with antibiotics was preferred over surgical drainage of the hepatic ab...

Hepatic Abscess

be considered as defending him. I have merely to deal with Surgeon-Captain Younge's article. Surgeon-Captain Younge starts with the assumption that all dysenteric hepatic abscesses must be due to micro-organisuas absorbed from the intestine, and that the post-viortern condition of the radicles of the portal veiu leading away from the ulcerated parts of the gut must be similar to that seen in th...

Hepatic Abscess