A pyogenic liver abscess is a pus-filled sac in the liver that occurs due to infection or injury. Treatment involves antibiotics to address the infection. Drainage may also be necessary to help ...

A pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) is a pocket of pus in the liver. It can be life-threatening. Find out the causes and symptoms of PLA and how it's treated.

What makes the case unique: Liver abscesses are rare. In North America, about two cases are reported per 100,000 people each year , and estimates for other locations can reach about 17 per 100,000 ...

Liver abscess and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are two significant tropical gastrointestinal disorders. The concurrence between these two disorders yields poor prognosis, which then often ...

Patients diagnosed with cryptogenic pyogenic liver abscess had a “significantly higher incidence” of colorectal cancer up to 3 years from diagnosis compared with matched controls, highlighting ...

We performed a retrospective case review on 35 Thai hospitalized chronic HBV carriers with liver abscess (16 males and 19 females, with an average age of 43.6 ± 20.3 years). The liver abscess was ...