Analysis of 69 patients with amebic liver abscess |
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Authors: | Kwang Choon Lee Osamu Yamazaki Hiroyuki Hamba Yoshihiro Sakaue Hiroaki Kinoshita Kazuhiro Hirohashi Shoji Kubo |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Surgery, Osaka City Momoyama Municipal Hospital, 2-13-22 Miyakojima-hondori, Miyakojima-ku, 534 Osaka, Japan;(2) Osaka Infectious Disease Center, Osaka City General Hospital, 2-13-22 Miyakojima-hondori, Miyakojima-ku, 534 Osaka, Japan;(3) Second Department of Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan;(4) Present address: Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, 2-13-22 Miyakojima-hondori, miyakojima-ku, 534 Osaka, Japan |
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Abstract: | All 69 patients with amebic liver abscess that we treated in 1981–1992 were studied retrospectively. Men predominated by a 10 1 ratio. Of our 227 patients with amebiasis, some 30% yearly had liver involvement. The incidence peaked in 1988, decreasing later but increasing again in 1992. Most patients were 30–50 years old, the overall mean age being 45 years (range, 22–79), and decreasing with time. Patients with the related factors of travel abroad, positive results of a test forTreponema pallidum hemagglutination, and homosexuality have increased in number in recent years. Fever, abdominal pain, and hepatomegaly were the most frequent findings, and 39 patients had neither bloody stools nor diarrhea. Only 8 patients had had amebiasis previously. A solitary abscess in the right lobe of the liver was found in 40 patients.Eniamoeba histolytica was found in the stool of 31 patients and in the pus of 39 patients. Sixty-one patients had positive results for an amebic serological test(s). The abscesses ruptured into the peritoneal cavity in 4 patients. All patients received metronidazole. Percutaneous or surgical drainage (or both) was done in 62 patients. The outcome was good, with 1 exception, and only 2 patients had recurrences. |
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Keywords: | amebic liver abscess percutaneous drainage homosexuality sexually transmitted disease |
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