In this prospective study, among 47 clinically suspected cases of Liver abscess, 46 were diagnosed as of Amoebic origin. Confirmation of Amoebic Liver abscess (ALA) was done by ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene detection from Liver abscess pus using real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). In addition, microscopy for detection of the parasite in Liver abscess pus, and Lectin antigen as well as anti-L...

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...

A 60 year-old male patient presented with complaints of fever with chills, pain abdomen and diarrhoea for 15 days. On evaluation the patient had hepatomegaly with tenderness in right hypochondrium and epigastrium. USG abdomen revealed liver abscess involving left lobe of liver. Serology for Entabmoeba histolytica was found to be positive. CT abdomen noted that the abscess was closely abutting t...

For reasons which are not quite clear amoebic liver abscesses in the left lobe are relatively uncommon. On account of the lesser bulk of the left lobe, and the potentially greater space under the left hemidiaphragm, expansive lesions within it remain less obtrusive than corresponding lesions in the right. Sixteen such cases are analysed and five distinct modes of clinical presentation have been...