Hepatic abscess is the most common extra intestinal manifestation of amoebiasis. The incidence of liver abscess among cases of intestinal amoebiasis varies from 3-17%. Objective: To study the clinical features and etiological factors of patients with Liver abscess. It is a prospective Hospital based study. Patients admitted to medical wards between the period August 2008 and August 2010 in SVRR...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Neonatal pyogenic hepatic abscess in preterm infants is a rare entity. We present 6 cases of neonatal liver abscesses diagnosed in our hospital as well as an approach that will facilitate the early diagnosis and management of neonatal pyogenic liver abscess based on our case series and review of the literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective review of case reco...

was admitted to this dispensary on the 13th August, 1926, with pain and swelling in the hepatic region, of about one year's duration. His history was typical of hepatic abscess. The condition had commenced in September 1925, and he first consulted a kaviraj. In November 1925 He attended this dispensary and had a course of emetine injections with much benefit, but discontinued treatment too soon...

Territory, Rajputana, came to the hospital, suffering from abscess of the liver. Previous history.? Last winter (1896) he suffered from acute lobar pneumonia, and lias been suffering from chronic dysentery and malarial fever of an intermittent kind for the last three months. He complained of pain in the hepatic area. Present condition?I. General.? Very weak and prostrate (typhoid condition) ; c...

Hepatic disease is usual in large animals. Increases in serum hepatic enzymes and total bile acid concentration may indicate hepatic dysfunction, insult, disease, or failure. While liver disease is particularlyusual in foals, progression to liver failure isn't.Diseases that frequently result in hepatic failure in horses include Theiler's disease, Tyzzer's disease, pyrrolizidine alkaloid toxicos...

We report an unusual case of pyogenic, hepatic abscess caused by fish bone penetration of the duodenum in a 68-year-old woman. The fish bone had migrated into the liver through the duodenal wall. The patient was initially admitted to our emergency room with abdominal pain, fever, and asthenia. A contrastenhanced abdominal coputed tomography (CT) scan showed a hepatic abscess in relation with a ...

Under the care op Surgeon John C. Lucas, II. J/.'.? 23rd Iteyt., Bombay N. L. Infantry. The following notes, which are almost a transcript from the writer's note-book, will, it is hoped, be deemed sufficiently interesting to warrant their publication in these columns. History.?Patient, Private F.. H. M.'s 63rd Regiment of Foot, set. 24 years, length of service 4 years, says he was well up to th...

Hepatic abscesses and hepatic metastasis are common diseases. However, hepatic abscesses seldom occur in patients with hepatic metastases. We describe a case of a 67-year-old female patient with abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed several lesions, with the largest lesion displaying features of both hepatic pyogenic abscess and liver metastasis. These ...

S perforation by ingested fish bone resulting in hepatic abscess is very rare with few case reports in the literature. They present with nonspecific features of an acute abdomen and with less severe clinical features than those perforations present in other parts of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). The clinical diagnosis is challenging without a definitive history of fish bone ingestion. The m...

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...