Two diabetic patients with primary liver abscess, who initially responded unsatisfactorily to intravenous ceftriaxone or cefoxitin treatment and had abscess drainage, were found to be infected with a single clone of Klebsiella pneumoniae with two different colonial morphotypes and resistotypes. Primary liver abscess caused by second-generation cephalosporin-resistant K. pneumoniae strains may b...

Percutaneous drainage is one of the first options for the treatmentof liver abscesses [1]. However, this method has several limitations, such as the requirement for external drainage and the risk for self-removal of the tube. On the other hand, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided drainage of liver abscesses overcomes both of these limitations. In addition, EUS-guided liver abscess drainage with ...

Background: Liver abscess is an acute suppurative infectious disease of liver parenchyma which may be pyogenic, amoebic or tubercular. It can occur due to direct blood spread through enterohepatic circulation ascending infection occurring biliary tree. Aim was evaluate effectiveness various management strategies in the abscess. Methods: a prospective study carried out 100 patients age 12-80 yea...

Hepatogastric fistula following a pyogenic liver abscess is extremely rare, and only a handful of cases have been reported. An 88-year-old female presented with generalized weakness, fever and chills. An abdominal computed tomography scan revealed a 5cm-sized hypodense lesion with internal septa in the left lateral section of the liver. Due to initial suspicion of early liver abscess, she was t...

The noninvasive diagnosis of amebic liver abscess is challenging, as most patients at the time of diagnosis do not have a concurrent intestinal infection with Entamoeba histolytica. Fecal testing for E. histolytica parasite antigen or DNA is negative in most patients. A real-time PCR assay was evaluated for detection of E. histolytica DNA in blood, urine, and saliva samples from amebic liver ab...

Backgrounds/Aims Gas-forming pyogenic liver abscess (GFPLA) has an incidence of up to 30% of all pyogenic liver abscesses (PLA). GFPLA has higher mortality compared to non-GFPLA. Mere presence of gas within abscess may not determine clinical outcome. Hence it is important to study biologic characteristics that make GFPLA a distinct clinical entity. The aim of this study was to conduct a world r...

While pyogenic liver abscesses are uncommon, they are associated with significant mortality and morbidity. Most pyogenic liver abscesses are polymicrobial and are caused by enteric bacteria and anaerobes. Rarely, mono-microbial infections may occur, typically in immunocompromised individuals. We report the unusual case of a 69 year-old immunocompetent female who developed a pyogenic liver absce...

Pyogenic liver abscess is a condition with considerable mortality. The common etiology of liver abscesses after chemotherapy is fungi, especially candida albicans, and gram-positive bacteria. However, little is known about gram-positive bacterial infection as the cause of pyogenic liver abscess. In this study we reviewed our experiences with the use of daptomycin for the treatment of gram-posit...