<i>Fasciola Hepatica</i> Induced Hepatic Abscess Treated with Triclabendazole

Human case of fasciolosis in Serbia treated with triclabendazole.

INTRODUCTION The number of humans infected by Fasciola hepatica is increasing worldwide. Humans can become accidental hosts by ingesting drinking water or plants contaminated with metacercariae. CASE REPORT We reported a case of a 68-year-old Serbian woman, in which the diagnosis of acute fasciolosis had been established after serious diagnostic concerns. Based on clinical picture (episodic r...

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 mucormycosis with abscess formation.

We describe a case of hepatic mucormycosis with abscess, an uncommon presentation of mucormycetes infection. Our patient was initially treated with transcutaneous pigtail catheter placement, liposomal amphotericin B, and micafungin without improvement. The patient subsequently improved after hepatic segmentectomy and hemidiaphragm resection.

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