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8220502

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-12-21
pubmed:abstractText
Thirty-six patients with pyogenic liver abscess treated by percutaneous drainage plus antibiotic therapy were reviewed. The most frequent symptoms were fever (75%) and pain (72.2%), and the most common physical signs were liver enlargement (58.3%) and jaundice (33.3%). The mean time interval from admission to diagnosis was 16 days. CT scans and ultrasonography were diagnostic in 100% of the patients. The percutaneous drainage was effective in one attempt in 19 patients, two attempts in 8, three attempts in 8 patients and more than four attempts in only one patient. There were three patients with hemoperitoneum (8.7%) as a post-drainage complication, one of them needed to be treated surgically. Mean hospital stay was of 24.8 days and the mortality rate was 5.5%. Percutaneous drainage plus antibiotic therapy is then an efficient therapeutic approach to the treatment of pyogenic liver abscess.
pubmed:language
por
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0104-4230
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
12-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
[Pyogenic liver abscesses: analysis of 36 cases treated by percutaneous drainage].
pubmed:affiliation
Serviço de Fígado e Med-Imagem do Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract