Emetine hydrochloride and chloroquine in the treatment of children with amoebic liver abscess.

Children with Amoebic Liver Abscess

A combination of emetine hydrochloride with chloroquine yields better results than either drug alone in the treatment of amoebic liver abscess in adults (Wilmot, Powell, and Adams, 1959). A similar combination of dehydroemetine with chloroquine is equally satisfactory (Wilmot, Powell, MacLeod, and Elsdon-Dew, 1964; Powell, Wilmot, MacLeod, and Elsdon-Dew, 1967). Dehydroemetine is claimed to be ...

Metronidazole and niridazole combined with dehydroemetine in treatment of children with amoebic liver abscess.

Metronidazole and niridazole combined with dehydroemetine in treatment of children with amoebic liver abscess. Metronidazole combined with dehydroemetine cured 13 of 15 children with amoebic liver abscess. An alternative combination of niridazole with dehydroemetine produced cure in 13 of 14 children. No relapses were observed. Electrocardiographic changes were noted in 2 of the first group and...

The Emetine and Other Treatment of Amœbic Dysentery and Hepatitis Including Liver Abscess *Read at Medical Section of Asiatic Society of Bengal

say very little on the value of hypodermic injections of emetine hydrochloride introduced by me last year, as the rapid specific curative action of this treatment has been generally recognized in all parts of the world where amoebic cases are met with, and it is not too much to say that one of the most distressing and intractable diseases of tropical and sub-tropical climates has been conquered.

A Comparison of Chloroquine and Emetine in the Treatment of Amœbic Liver Abscess

The Spontaneous Absorption of Amœbic Abscess of the Liver under Emetine Therapy

In a recent authoritative work on tropical medicine (1) in the section on amoebic abscess of the liver, emetine is said to have " robbed the surgeon of much of the surgery associated with amoebic inflammations of the liver, which, in any degree short of an actual abscess, will almost certainly yield to this treatment. If an abscess appears to be forming, or has already formed, operation is nece...