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Pyogenic liver abscess. Changes in etiology, management, and outcome.
Reginald K. Seeto,Don C. Rockey +1 more
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A subgroup of patients with no or low-level elevations in bilirubin and alkaline phosphatase and most often single right-sided PLA who do not have a readily identifiable cause of PLA are identified, as having a particularly favorable prognosis.About:
This article is published in Medicine.The article was published on 1996-03-01. It has received 301 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pyogenic liver abscess & Liver abscess.read more
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Pyogenic Liver Abscess: Recent Trends in Etiology and Mortality
TL;DR: K. pneumoniae has become the predominant etiology of pyogenic liver abscess and that mortality from this disease has decreased substantially, according to the data.
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Pyogenic liver abscess with a focus on Klebsiella pneumoniae as a primary pathogen: an emerging disease with unique clinical characteristics.
Edith R. Lederman,Nancy F. Crum +1 more
TL;DR: Data suggest that Klebsiella liver abscess may represent an emerging disease in Western countries, such as the United States, and appropriate antibiotic therapy and a diagnostic work-up for metastatic complications should be employed.
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Liver abscess in adults: ten years experience in a UK centre
TL;DR: US is recommended as the first-line diagnostic tool with guided intervention plus antibiotic(s) as first- line treatment for liver abscess, which depends chiefly on the underlying pathology.
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Genetic determinants of capsular serotype K1 of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing primary pyogenic liver abscess.
TL;DR: The operon containing magA is responsible for capsular serotype K1 of K. pneumoniae, and several loci in the operon are unique determinants of K1 strains.
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Clinical course, treatment, and multivariate analysis of risk factors for pyogenic liver abscess
Jose Antonio Álvarez Pérez,Juan José Pulido González,Ricardo F. Baldonedo,Lourdes Sanz,Guillermo Carreño,Aurora Junco,José Ignacio Rodrı́guez,Maria Dolores Martin Martinez,Jose I. Jorge +8 more
TL;DR: Treatment of pyogenic liver abscesses should be tailored to each patient, however, the majority of them can be successfully treated with antibiotics and percutaneous methods.
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Pyogenic abscess of the liver
TL;DR: The principal symptoms and signs of pyogenic hepatic abscess are fever, pain and tenderness over the hepatic area, liver enlargement, chills, and jaundice, and there is a leucocytosis with a proportionate increase in polymorphonuclear leucocytes.
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Hepatic abscess. Changes in etiology, diagnosis, and management.
TL;DR: In this study a detailed review was performed with a computerized analysis of multiple clinical parameters in 73 patients treated for pyogenic hepatic abscess during a 17-year period, reflecting a population of more severely ill patients.
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Pyogenic liver abscess. Diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.
TL;DR: A retrospective review of 26 adult patients admitted to University of California, Davis, Medical Center (UCDMC) with pyogenic liver abscess (1980-1986) was performed, finding deaths were related to delay in diagnosis, gram-negative sepsis at presentation, and biliary origin of the abscess.