Intrahepatic Ascariasis Leading to Liver Abscess

COVID-19 infection leading to lethal spondylodiscitis with spinal abscess

Background: Secondary complications after SARS-CoV-2 virus infection including cardiovascular and neurological pose additional morbidity and mortality. Till date there no single case report of spondylodiscitis with spinal abscess after CVOID-19 infection. Case Description: A 71- year-old man presented with tachypnea and cough since 24 hours. He was febrile and the CT-chest showed typical pictu...

Intrahepatic Duct Stones Harboring Ascariasis Ova

Ascariasis lumbricoides is one of the most common helminthic infestations in humans. Despite the fact that the prevalence of ascariasis in developed countries has been decreasing, biliary ascariasis can cause serious complications, such as acute cholangitis, pancreatitis, and liver abscess. Here we presented a rare ascariasis-related complication-hepatolithiasis.A 60-year-old female patient had...

Intrahepatic ascariasis – Common parasite at an uncommon site

Biliary infections and biliary cholangitis are common terms used to define infections of the biliary tree. Bacteria are the most common cause for these infections. Parasites can form an important group of biliary infections and act as causative agents or may predispose bacterial infections. Despite being an important cause, these infections are quite uncommon to find, especially in the intrahep...

Annular abscess leading to free wall rupture.

Liver infarction due to liver abscess.

nosed segment III infarction due to liver abscess, because CT scan showed the cluster sign characteristic of a liver abscess [1, 2] . We performed an operation for lavage and drainage ( fig. 2 ). Nine days later, CT examination revealed that the abscess cavity had become smaller and the infarction area had a transformed abscess ( fig. 1 b). Five months later, CT examination revealed that the la...