Splenic abscess is a rare complication of systemic infection, sometimes associated with infective endocarditis. Due to its rarity and nonspecific symptoms, diagnosis is difficult. Antibiotic therapy alone is usually unsuccessful, and definitive treatment requires splenectomy, although percutaneous ultrasound-guided drainage has been successful in some patients. Abdominal computed tomography sca...

The authors describe a clinical case of successful treatment patient with an ischiorectal abscess complicated by extensive purulentnecrotic phlegmon on the anterior abdominal wall and right thigh. Topical negative pressure wound technique (NPWT) was used. Its combination surgical debridement rational systemic antibiotic therapy has been shown to contribute this life-threatening pathology.

Fusobacterium is well characterized as an oropharyngeal pathogen that may induce a septic thrombophlebitis by direct extension of abscess into an adjacent neck vessel (Lemierre's syndrome); its potential for visceral abscess formation, however, remains under-recognized. A 65-year-old man with a recent history of multiple rim-enhancing liver lesions presented to the emergency room with fever and...

The initial clinical diagnosis was one of infective endocarditis and treatment was started with parenteral ampicillin and gentamicin. One week after admission he remained unwell with an intermittent pyrexia. Computed tomographic scan (CT) demonstrated an enlarging, multi-loculated intra-abdominal abscess with subhepatic, peri-renal and peri-pancreatic collections. The sub-hepatic abscess was dr...

By AGHORE NATH GHOSH, Officiating Civil Surgeon, Tip per a. A female, aged ZH years, married at the age ot li, nullipara, was admitted to the Comilla Sadar Hospital on 4th November, 1927, with an abdominal tumour. She gave the following history:? In February, 1923 her menstruation ceased and all the signs of pregnancy became evident. When she thought that she was about 3 months pregnant, she fe...

Difloxacin (A-56619) and A-56620, two novel fluoroquinolones, were tested in comparison with ciprofloxacin, cefoxitin, and combined clindamycin and gentamicin in the treatment of experimentally induced intraabdominal abscess associated with Bacteroides fragilis. Difloxacin was found to be as effective as clindamycin-gentamicin. A-56620, despite achieving subtherapeutic levels in serum, was foun...

Disseminated mycobacterial infection after Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination is a rare disorder, usually presenting with fever, weight loss, anemia, lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly. We report a case of disseminated BCG infection in a 28-month-old girl with prolonged fever and abdominal mass due to retroperitoneal abscess. Appropriate therapy resulted in a good response. This is t...

Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is a rare anomaly in which there is a reversal of abdominal and thoracic organs. The condition may come to light when affected patients who uncommonly have congenital heart disease (CHD), manifest with one. A case of a 10 year old boy with SIT and tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) that was complicated with cerebral abscess is presented. The successful management of the cere...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(3) Case report A 53-year-old woman presented with a 4-week history of constant pain and a lump in the right groin. She also gave a history of low-grade fever, loss of weight and general malaise. There was no history of vaginal discharge or urinary symptoms. She was a housewife and had been in the same relationship for 19 years. The only relevant p...

Pyogenic liver abscess in Taiwan is most commonly due to Klebsiella pneumoniae infection in diabetic patients, and less frequently due to biliary tract infections. Liver abscess caused by ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is very rare. We report a case of liver abscess caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which developed as a complication of an infected VP shunt. A 53-yea...