Amebic liver abscess and polycystic liver disease

Amebic liver abscess in a patient with polycystic disease.

A 93 year-old man was admitted to our Department with fatigue, loss of weight during the last few months and fever up to 38 C of 5 days duration until one day prior to his admission being treated with antipyretics. The patient had been admitted with similar symptoms 3 months ago to another hospital and the ultrasound of the abdomen had revealed polycystic disease of the liver-kidney-pancreas, b...

Ruptured Amebic Liver Abscess

We treated two patients with a ruptured amebic liver abscess. The diagnosis was made at a relatively early stage and treatment was successful for one patient, but an accurate diagnosis of liver abscess was not made and invasive extraintestinal amebiasis led to multiple organ failure and to death for the other. Neither patient had been outside of Japan, and both were heterosexual. The origins of...

Amebic liver abscess.

Amebic liver abscess (ALA) highly endemic in most developing tropical countries is being encountered more frequently in other geographical areas maybe secondary to increased travel to areas where the disease is endemic as well as in the homosexual population. We report a classical clinical case of ALA in a 44 years old man diagnosed by ultrasound and positive seroameba titers who responded to o...

Amebic Liver Abscess

A 45 year-old woman presented with a 6-week history of constant right upper quadrant abdominal pain, 20-lb weight loss, and worsening fevers. The patient had immigrated to the United States from Mexico 7 years earlier. She was febrile, experienced pain with light palpation of the right upper quadrant, and had normal serum transaminases, normal alkaline phosphatase, and mildly elevated total bil...

Amebic liver abscess and liver cirrhosis.