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Dauny V, Dioguardi-Burgio M, Leflon-Guibout V, Bert F, Roux O, Houzé S, Lefort A, Rossi G. [Clinical and radiological differences between amoebic and pyogenic liver abscess: A case-control study]. Rev Med Interne 2023; 44:472-478. [PMID: 37105864 DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2023.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Revised: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Amoebic liver abscess (ALA) is the fourth cause of mortality by parasitic infection. This study aimed to assess clinical, radiological and therapeutic characteristics of patients admitted for amoebic liver abscess compared to pyogenic abscess in a French digestive tertiary care-centre. MATERIAL AND METHOD The charts of patients hospitalized for a liver abscess between 2010 and 2020 were retrospectively assessed then separated in two groups: amoebic liver abscess and pyogenic liver abscess from portal underlying cause. Clinical and radiological data were collected for univariate comparison. RESULTS Twenty-one patients were hospitalized during the time of the study for ALA, and 21 patients for pyogenic liver abscess with a portal mechanism. All patients hospitalized for ALA lived in and/or had travelled recently in an endemic area. In comparison with patients hospitalized for pyogenic abscess, patients admitted for ALA were younger (44years old vs. 63years old, P<0.001), had less comorbidities (5% vs. 43% of patients with at least one comorbidity, P<0.01), a longer median duration of symptoms (10days vs. 3days, P=0.015), abdominal pain (86% vs. 52%, P=0.019), and a slighter leucocytosis (9600G/L vs. 15,500G/L, P=0.041) were more frequent. On the abdominal tomodensitometry, density of ALA was higher (34 vs. 25 UH, P<0.01), associated with a focal intra-hepatic biliary dilatation and less often multiloculated. CONCLUSION While rare in western countries, amoebic liver abscess care should not be underestimated. The presence of a solitary liver abscess of intermediate density on computed tomography, occurring on a patient returning from an endemic zone should lead the physician to a possible diagnosis of ALA.
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- Vincent Dauny
- Service de médecine interne, hôpital Beaujon, groupe hospitalier AP-HP Nord, université Paris Cité, Clichy, France.
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- Service de radiologie, hôpital Beaujon, groupe hospitalier AP-HP Nord, université Paris Cité, Clichy, France; Inserm U1149, « centre de recherche sur l'inflammation » (CRI), université Paris Cité, 75018 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de microbiologie, hôpital Beaujon, groupe hospitalier AP-HP Nord, université Paris Cité, Clichy, France
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- Laboratoire de microbiologie, hôpital Beaujon, groupe hospitalier AP-HP Nord, université Paris Cité, Clichy, France
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- Service d'hépatologie, hôpital Beaujon, groupe hospitalier AP-HP Nord, université Paris Cité, Clichy, France
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- Service de parasitologie, hôpital Bichat, AP-HP, 75018 Paris, France; IRD, MERIT, université Paris Cité, 75006 Paris, France
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- Service de médecine interne, hôpital Beaujon, groupe hospitalier AP-HP Nord, université Paris Cité, Clichy, France; Inserm, IAME, UMR1137, université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Service de médecine interne, hôpital Beaujon, groupe hospitalier AP-HP Nord, université Paris Cité, Clichy, France
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Jiménez-Romero C, Marcacuzco A, Caso Ó, Lechuga I, Manrique A, García-Sesma Á, Calvo J, Aguado JM, López-Medrano F, Juan RS, Justo I. Pyogenic liver abscesses in liver transplant recipients versus non-transplant population. Outcome and risk factors of patient survival. Clin Transplant 2023:e14966. [PMID: 36943872 DOI: 10.1111/ctr.14966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2022] [Revised: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
Abstract
Pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) is a life-threatening infection in both liver transplant (LT) and non-LT patients. Several risk factors, such as benign and malignant hepatopancreatobiliary diseases and colorectal tumors have been associated with PLA in the non-LT population, and hepatic artery stricture/thrombosis, biliary stricture, and hepaticojejunostomy in the LT patients. The objective of this study is to compare the outcomes of patients with PLA in LT and non-LT patients and to determine the risk factors associated with patient survival. From January 2000 to November 2020, a total of 296 adult patients were diagnosed of PLA in our institution, of whom 26 patients had previously undergone liver transplantation (LTA group), whereas 263 patients corresponded to the non-LTA population. Seven patients with PLA who had undergone previous kidney transplantation were excluded from this retrospective study. Twenty-six patients out of 1503 LT developed PLA (incidence of 1.7%). Median age was significantly higher in non-LTA patients (p = .001). No significant differences were observed in therapy. PLA recurrence was significantly higher in LTA than in non-LTA (34.6% vs. 14.8%; p = .008). In-hospital mortality was greater in the LT group than in the non-LT group (19.2% vs. 9.1% p = .10) and was identified in multivariable analysis as a risk factor for mortality (p = .027). Mortality rate during follow-up did not show significant differences between the groups: 34.6% in LTA patients versus 26.2% in non-LTA patients (p = .10). The most common causes of mortality during follow-up were malignancies, Covid-19 infection, and neurologic disease. 1-, 3-, and 5-year actuarial patient survival rates were 87.0%, 64.1%, and 50.4%, respectively, in patients of LTA group, and 84.5%, 66.5%, and 51.0%, respectively, in patients with liver abscesses in non-LTA population (p = .53). In conclusion, LT was a risk factor for in hospital mortality, but not during long-term follow-up.
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- Carlos Jiménez-Romero
- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Infectious Diseases, "Doce de Octubre" Hospital, Research Institute (imas12), Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Infectious Diseases, "Doce de Octubre" Hospital, Research Institute (imas12), Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Infectious Diseases, "Doce de Octubre" Hospital, Research Institute (imas12), Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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Justo I, Vega V, Marcacuzco A, Caso Ó, García-Conde M, Manrique A, Calvo J, García-Sesma Á, San Juan R, Fernández-Ruiz M, Rivas C, Calero MR, Jiménez-Romero C. Risk factors indicating the need for surgical therapy in patients with pyogenic liver abscesses. Langenbecks Arch Surg 2023; 408:97. [PMID: 36808482 PMCID: PMC9942623 DOI: 10.1007/s00423-023-02837-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Percutaneous drainage (PD) and antibiotics are the therapy of choice (non-surgical therapy [non-ST]) for pyogenic liver abscesses (PLA), reserving surgical therapy (ST) for PD failure. The aim of this retrospective study was to identify risk factors that indicate the need for ST. METHODS We reviewed the medical charts of all of our institution's adult patients with a diagnosis of PLA between January 2000 and November 2020. A series of 296 patients with PLA was divided into two groups according to the therapy used: ST (n = 41 patients) and non-ST (n = 255). A comparison between groups was performed. RESULTS The overall median age was 68 years. Demographics, clinical history, underlying pathology, and laboratory variables were similar in both groups, except for the duration of PLA symptoms < 10 days and leukocyte count which were significantly higher in the ST group. The in-hospital mortality rate in the ST group was 12.2% vs. 10.2% in the non-ST group (p = 0.783), with biliary sepsis and tumor-related abscesses as the most frequent causes of death. Hospital stay and PLA recurrence were statistically insignificant between groups. One-year actuarial patient survival was 80.2% in the ST group vs. 84.6% in the non-ST (p = 0.625) group. The presence of underlying biliary disease, intra-abdominal tumor, and duration of symptoms for less than 10 days on presentation comprised the risk factors that indicated the need to perform ST. CONCLUSIONS There is little evidence regarding the decision to perform ST, but according to this study, the presence of underlying biliary disease or an intra-abdominal tumor and the duration of PLA symptoms < 10 days upon presentation are risk factors that should sway the surgeons to perform ST instead of PD.
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- Iago Justo
- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, 4ª Floor Ctra Andalucía Km 5,4, 28041, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, 4ª Floor Ctra Andalucía Km 5,4, 28041, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, 4ª Floor Ctra Andalucía Km 5,4, 28041, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, 4ª Floor Ctra Andalucía Km 5,4, 28041, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, 4ª Floor Ctra Andalucía Km 5,4, 28041, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, 4ª Floor Ctra Andalucía Km 5,4, 28041, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, 4ª Floor Ctra Andalucía Km 5,4, 28041, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, 4ª Floor Ctra Andalucía Km 5,4, 28041, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Radiology, "Doce de Octubre" Hospital, Research Institute (imas12), Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, "Doce de Octubre" University Hospital, 4ª Floor Ctra Andalucía Km 5,4, 28041, Madrid, Spain.
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Muacevic A, Adler JR, Choi C, Verma S. Recurrent Liver Abscess in a Non-toxic Patient. Cureus 2023; 15:e33929. [PMID: 36819381 PMCID: PMC9937436 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.33929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Liver abscesses range in presentation from asymptomatic infection to sepsis. Recurrence is rare. We describe a case of an asymptomatic liver abscess that recurred 10 years after a previous abscess. The patient presented with flu-like symptoms and dark urine. Laboratory evaluation showed an elevation of aminotransferases and bilirubin. Triple-phase CT showed a 2.8 cm mass in the right liver lobe with linear enhancement. The abscess was aspirated, with cultures growing Escherichia coli. The patient was started on ceftriaxone and metronidazole and then discharged with outpatient follow-up. We describe an unusual case of asymptomatic pyogenic liver abscess growing E. coli, with the same location and causative organism as an abscess that occurred 10 years prior.
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Rossi G, Nguyen Y, Lafont E, Rossi B, Canouï E, Roux O, Dokmak S, Bert F, Fantin B, Lefort A. Large retrospective study analysing predictive factors of primary treatment failure, recurrence and death in pyogenic liver abscesses. Infection 2022; 50:1205-1215. [PMID: 35316531 DOI: 10.1007/s15010-022-01793-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 02/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE Pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) is a severe disease, which unfavourable evolution remains frequent. Our objective was to assess predictive factors of unfavourable outcome in patients with PLA. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study in a French tertiary care centre. All patients admitted for PLA between 2010 and 2018 were included. Unfavourable course was defined as the occurrence of a primary treatment failure (PTF), recurrence of PLA after an initial cure, or death within 3 months after diagnosis. Hazard ratios (95% CI) were calculated with multivariable Cox proportional hazard models. RESULTS 302 patients were included among which 91 (30.1%) patients had an unfavourable outcome because of PTF, recurrence or death in 55 (18.2%), 28 (9.2%) and 32 (10.6%) patients, respectively. Hepatic metastases (HR 2.08; 95% CI 1.04-4.15), a nosocomial infection (2.25; 1.14-4.42), portal thrombosis (2.12; 1.14-3.93), and the isolation of Enterococcus spp. (2.18; 1.22- 3.90) were independently associated with PTF. Ischemic cholangitis (6.30; 2.70-14.70) and the isolation of Streptococcus spp. (3.72; 1.36-10.16) were associated with the risk of recurrence. Charlson comorbidity index (HR 1.30 per one point; 95% CI 1.15-1.46; p < 0.001), portal thrombosis (3.53; 1.65-7.56) and the presence of multi-drug-resistant organisms (3.81; 1.73-8.40) were associated with mortality within 3 months following PLA diagnosis. PLA drainage was the only factor associated with a lower mortality (0.14; 0.06-0.34). CONCLUSION Identification of specific risk factors may help to improve the management of PLA and to elaborate targeted recommendations according to patient's and disease's characteristics.
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- Geoffrey Rossi
- Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France.
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- Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France
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- Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France
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- Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France
- Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Robert Ballanger, 93600, Aulnay-sous-bois, France
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- Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France
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- Service d'Hépatologie, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France
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- Service de Chirurgie Viscérale Et Digestive, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France
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- Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France
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- Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France
- Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Robert Ballanger, 93600, Aulnay-sous-bois, France
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- Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris, 100 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France.
- IAME, UMR1137, Université de Paris and INSERM, Paris, France.
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Chan KS, Shelat V. Pyogenic Liver Abscess. THE IASGO TEXTBOOK OF MULTI-DISCIPLINARY MANAGEMENT OF HEPATO-PANCREATO-BILIARY DISEASES 2022:509-519. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-0063-1_66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
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