Seventeen patients over the age of 60 years, admitted to the Aberdeen Teaching Hospitals between 1980 and mid-1988, were diagnosed as having pyogenic liver abscess. Eleven were women and the mean age was 73.5 years. The diagnosis of liver abscess was made by needle aspiration in seven patients and was an unexpected finding at laparotomy in three. Six patients were thought to be suffering from a...

Bronchobiliary fistula is a very rare complication of liver abscess. It presents with biliptysis (bile in cough), and chronic cough. Here we present a case of intractable biliptysis from a bronchobiliary fistula secondary to a liver abscess with biliary obstruction.

They predominate between the fifth and sixth decade of life, due to higher incidence neoplasms complex biliary diseases, with in countries temperate climate. Most are secondary or gastrointestinal tract infection. It is often preceded by symptoms that vary from days two three weeks, fever 90% patients, followed hepatomegaly, attack general condition, weight loss, anorexia vomiting finally hepat...

A 45 year old woman presented with pain in her right upper abdomen and fever. Ultrasound of her abdomen showed a large liver abscess with subhepatic collection. She had Cullen's sign. The liver abscess was managed by percutaneous catheter drainage.

The liver has the remarkable ability to respond to injury with repair and regeneration. The protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica is the major cause of liver abscess worldwide. We report a transcriptional analysis of the response of mouse liver to E. histolytica infection, the first study looking at acute liver infection by a non-viral pathogen. Focusing on early time points, we identified 7...

BACKGROUND Amoebiasis affects approximately 10% of the population all over the world. Amoebic liver abscess (ALA) is the commonest complication of amoebiasis affecting 3-9% victims. It is an ancient disease as Hippocrates notified large hepatic abscesses likely to be amoebic abscesses. Objective of this study was to see the efficacy of conservative treatment in the management of ruptured amoebi...

Pyogenic liver abscesses are rare in children. In pediatric patients, altered host defences seem to play an important role. However, pyogenic liver abscess also occurs in healthy children. We experienced a case of pyogenic liver abscess in a healthy immunocompetent 10-year-old-girl. The patient presented two distinct abscesses: one subphrenic and the other intrahepatic. The intrahepatic abscess...