A 72-year-old man consulted in November 2012 for abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant. The patient had a history of suspected hepatic amebiasis treated in Senegal in 1985 and has not traveled to endemic areas since 1990. Abdominal CT scan revealed a liver abscess. At first, no parasitological tests were performed and the patient was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Only after fail...

introduction liver abscess developing during hospital stay in pediatric patients on dialysis for acute kidney injury has been previously unreported. impaired immunity, prolonged use of antibiotics, diabetes and malnutrition predispose to liver abscess in chronic hemodialysis patients. case presentation we reported a case of liver abscess developing in a 6-year-old boy admitted with sepsis and m...

Introduction: Fusobacterium nucleatum (F. nucleatum) is a non-spore forming, anaerobic, gram-negative bacteria usually associated with periodontal disease and rarely reported in association with pyogenic liver abscess. Although common symptoms of colonic cancer are well known, unusual infections may herald presence of such a cancer. Streptococcus bovis bacteraemia is an accepted diagnostic mark...

Penetration and abscess formation in an adjacent parenchymal organ as presentation of a colon cancer is very uncommon. We report a rare case of pyogenic liver abscess as the first manifestation of an infiltrative and penetrating hepatic flexure colon carcinoma without liver metastases. A 50-year-old woman was admitted with right abdominal pain, fever and chills. The initial diagnosis was a pyog...

INTRODUCTION Amebiasis is a parasitic disease caused by Entamoeba histolytica. It most commonly results in asymptomatic colonization of the gastrointestinal tract, but some patients develop intestinal invasive or extra-intestinal diseases. Liver abscess is the most common extra-intestinal manifestation. The large number of clinical presentations of amebic liver abscess makes the diagnosis very ...

Hepatic arterial flow is paramount in preserving biliary integrity. We present an interesting clinical scenario of a liver transplant recipient with biliary anastomotic stricture who developed biliary abscess and sepsis after Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography. The abscess did not respond to maximal medical management, percutaneous drainage, and adequate endoscopic biliary drainage....

Elevation of the left dome of the diaphragm occurred in 43% of cases with left lobe amoebic liver abscesses. It was rarely seen in patients with an abscess in the right hepatic lobe. Elevation of the right dome of the diaphragm, which occurred in 36% of cases, is also compatible with a diagnosis of left lobe abscess. This radiological sign was present in 75% of cases with right lobe abscesses. ...

Even though Gemella morbillorum infection (GMI) is rare in humans, it may nevertheless, cause endocarditis, meningitis, brain abscess, pleural empyema, nephritis, mediastinitis, and--occasionally--liver abscess. We are describing the case of a 64-years-old Caucasian male admitted with fever and abdominal pain. Laboratory parameters revealed inflammation signs, and instrumental examinations show...

Hepatic tuberculosis is a rare manifestation of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. Hepatic tuberculous lesions are especially mimicking tumour-like mass or cystic lesions in the liver and so can be misdiagnosed with several diseases. Histopathological examination of the specimen is essential in the diagnosis for hepatic tuberculosis. In this report, two cases with hepatic tuberculosis having cystic ...