OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of conservative management of amoebic liver abscesses. DESIGN A prospective study carried out over a 1-year period. SETTING Inpatients and outpatients in a tertiary referral institution. SUBJECTS Amoebic liver abscess was diagnosed on clinical, ultrasonographic, and serological features. All patients were treated with metronidazole. The indica...

specific and non- specific cellular immune responses were studied in 20 amoebiasis cases and 10 controls. all the study cases and controls were indians living in varanasi, india. ten amoebic liver abscess cases were patients admitted to university hospital. ten non-invasive intestinal amoebiasis cases constituted the second study group. non-specific immune responses were studied using e-rosette...

An IgG ELISA was evaluated as a serological test for the diagnosis of invasive amoebic disease in an endemic area. Sixteen patients with proven amoebic dysentery, 22 with suspected amoebic dysentery and 21 with amoebic liver abscesses were studied. Control subjects were 26 asymptomatic amoebic cyst passers, 13 patients with giardiasis, 26with enteric fever and 31 individuals with no evidence of...

A retrospective study was conducted of all 31 patients with liver abscess admitted to Shaare Zedek Medical Center between 1979, the year computed tomographic scan and ultrasound were introduced, and 1992. Fever and abdominal pain were the most common symptoms. Duration of symptoms was short: 81% of patients had symptoms for < or = 5 days and none had symptoms for more than 3 weeks. Amoebic absc...

The liver abscess is the most frequent extraintestinal complication of intestinal amoebiasis: its diagnosis is suggested by the clinical picture but it must be confirmed by paraclinic tests. Themost stringent diagnosis requires identification of E. histolytica. But this is possible only in a few cases. Serological tests greatly improve the diagnosis of this severe complication of amoebiasis. We...

BACKGROUND: Pyogenic and amoebic liver abscesses are rare, potentially lethal conditions. In this study, we aimed to examine the clinical and pathological differences between them. METHODS: Patients with confirmed liver abscesses were divided into two groups: the pyogenic (n = 47) and amoebic group (n = 21), which were analyzed for differences in clinical and laboratory findings. RESULTS: Amoeb...

Although amoebic liver abscess is infrequent in children, the outcome is much less favourable than it is in adults. When treated with combined emetine hydrochloride, chloroquine, and aspiration, the prognosis is excellent in adults (Wilmot, 1962), this regime being more successful than treatment with a single drug (Wilmot, Powell, and Adams, 1959; Wilmot, Powell, MacLeod, and Elsdon-Dew, 1964)....

Forty-one consecutive cases of liver abscesses seen at the National University Hospital, Singapore from 1988 to 1994 were reviewed. Twenty-seven cases (65%) were pyogenic, six (15%) amoebic, two (5%) tuberculous and six (15%) indeterminate. The predominance of pyogenic abscesses is in marked contrast to previous studies from the region a decade ago in which amoebic abscesses were the commonest ...