Morphological Characteristics of Liver Abscesses According its Etiology

On the Etiology and Classification of Abscesses in the Liver

The January, February, and March issues of the Indian Medical Gazette for this year contain a series of papers on Tropical Suppurative Hepatitis by Surgeon-Captain P. Hehir. The title is unfortunate, because under the general heading " Suppurative Hepatitis" two distinct conditions are confused ; conditions differing in etiology and only partially alike when we come to consider" their pathology...

Clinical Features of Drug-induced Liver Injury According to Etiology

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is an increasingly common cause of acute hepatitis. We examined clinical features and types of liver injury of 65 affected patients who underwent liver biopsy according DILI etiology. The major causes of DILI were the use of herbal medications (43.2%), prescribed medications (21.6%), and traditional therapeutic preparations and dietary supplements (35%). DILI fr...

Morphological Characteristics of Ovine Fetal Liver Cells

In recent years, research in the field of stem cells is rapidly expanding and the published data are of great promise for the future of the regenerative medicine. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are a relatively new direction in these studies. Their ability to differentiate to a number of cell types indicates that they have the potential to be used as therapy for a variety of medical conditions. A...

Abscesses of Liver

Therapy of Liver Abscesses

BACKGROUND Liver abscess (LA) is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening disease with significant morbidity and mortality. METHODS This review comprehensively describes epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of LA, with a strong focus on antimicrobial treatment choices and the impact of multidrug-resistant pathogens. RESULTS In industrialized areas, pyogenic liver abscess...