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World J Hepatol
December 2024
Department of Surgery, University of Witwatersrand, School of Clinical Medicine, Johannesburg 2193, Gauteng, South Africa.
Background: Hepatic abscesses represent infections of the liver parenchyma from bacteria, fungi, and parasitic organisms. Trends in both abscess microbiology and management of abscesses (infective collections) have changed over the past decade. There is a paucity of published data regarding the clinicopathological features of liver abscesses in sub-Saharan Africa and other low-income and middle-income countries.
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November 2024
Southern Counties Veterinary Specialists, Independent Vetcare (IVC) Evidensia, Forest Corner Farm, Hangersley, Ringwood BH24 3JW, UK.
Bacterial liver parenchymal infections in dogs are rarely documented, and their imaging characteristics are scarce in the veterinary literature, especially in Computed Tomography (CT). This retrospective multicentric study aimed to describe the CT characteristics of parenchymal bacterial liver infection and abscessation in dogs and compare them with the human literature. Twenty dogs met the inclusion criteria.
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December 2024
Department of Hepatic-Biliary-Pancreatic Medicine, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province.
Objective: This study aimed to summarize the clinical and microbiological characteristics of patients with pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) and to explore the clinical features of PLA with extrahepatic migratory infection (EMI).
Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on clinical data from 1800 PLA patients at Jilin University First Hospital from January 2019 to December 2023. Patients were divided into two groups based on the presence of EMI: with EMI and without EMI.
BMJ Case Rep
December 2024
Emergency Medicine, Hiroshima City Hiroshima Citizens Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
Clin Epidemiol
November 2024
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, 9000, Denmark.
Purpose: Routinely collected clinical data are a valuable resource for epidemiological research in infectious diseases. We examined the validity of the ICD-10 diagnosis code K75.0 for pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) from hospital discharge registries.
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