MANAGEMENT OF LIVER
ABSCESS
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LIVER ABSCESS
• 2 TYPES
-PYOGENIC
-AMOEBIC
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PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS
HISTORY
• Described since the time of Hippocrates (4000 BC).
• 1890 – Osler documented amoebae in stool and abscess
of the same patient.
• Dieulafoy described multiple hepatic abscess secondary
to pylephlebitis following appendicitis .
• In 1938 Ochsner's classic review heralded surgical
drainage as the definitive therapy.
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• INCIDENCE: 0.016%
• Majority clinically silent
• Peak at 7th
decade
• Men and women equally affected
• Elderly and immunosuppressed more
affected
• RACE: no role
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ETIOLOGY
• Biliary causes – 40% -partial or complete obs of
biliary tract with ascending cholangitis -
biliary manipulations like
cholangiography,PCT etc
• Portal venous route –20% -perforated Ca colon
-diverticulitis -appendicitis with
pylephlebitis
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• Hepatic arterial route –12% -iv drug abuse and its
complications -systemic
bacteremia-umbilical artery catheterisation -
hepatic artery chemoembolisation
• Traumatic causes-4% -penetrating trauma to
liver -cryosurgical ablation of liver tumors
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• Direct extension-6% -subphrenic
abscess -perforated peptic ulcers -
gangrenous cholecystitis
• Cryptogenic abscess-20% -asso with
DM,malignancy, immunosuppression
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Pathology
• Usually multiple , small abscesses
• More on right lobe of liver BACTERIOLOGY
• Staph aureus,Strepto pyogenes,Strepto
milleri,strepto faecalis
• E coli,Klebsiella,Proteus
• Bacteroids,Clostridium,Actinomyces
• TB
• Fungi-Candida,Aspergillus
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CLINICAL FEATURES
• SYMPTOMS -Fever (continuous or
spiking) - Chills, Malaise -
Anorexia,Weight loss -Pain -
Nausea and vomiting-
Pruritus,Diarrhoea,Cough -PUO
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• SIGNS
-Tenderness in right upper
quadrant
-Hepatomegaly
-
Jaundice,right upper quad
mass,ascites,pleural effusion
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IVESTIGATIONS
• LABORATORY
-Leucocytosis with shift to left
WBC count >10000/mm3
-Anaemia
PCV <36%
-Hypoalbuminemia
Albumin <3g/dl
-LFT
-ALP
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-Gamma glutamyl transpeptidase
-Bilurubin >2 gram/dl
-SGOT
BLOOD CULTURE
Aspiration of abscess and C & S
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RADIOLOGICAL
• X-RAY ABD
-Right upper quad gas, air-fluid
level in abscess cavity or ileus
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• USG ABDOMEN
-used as a preliminary screen
-identify lesions > 2cm in dia
-differentiating cystic from solid
lesions
-diagnosis of gall stones
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Echo-poor area in the right lobe
of liver
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Multiple abscess in the right lobe
of liver
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• CT SCAN
-investigation of choice
-better diagnosis of concurrent or
causative pathology
-abscess > 0.5 cm in dia
-small abscesses near diaphragm and those
in fatty liver
CONTRAST ENHANCED CT
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Multiloculated abscess in the
right lobe
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An abscess in the left lobe
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Multiloculated tubercular liver
abscess
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• MRI
-lesions as small as 0.3 cm in dia
-best for defining hepatic venous
anatomy
-useful for patients requiring liver
resection
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• NUCLEAR MEDICINE LIVER SCAN
Previously used
• X-RAY CHEST
Right pleural effusion
Atelectasis
Elevated hemi diaphragm
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• BARIUM CONTRST STUDIES OF
UPPER AND LOWER GIT
• Endoscopic retrograde
cholangiography/ERC
• Per cutaneous cholangiography/PTC
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TREATMENT
• An untreated hepatic abscess is
nearly uniformly fatal due to
complications that include sepsis,
empyema, or peritonitis from
rupture into the pleural or
peritoneal spaces, and
retroperitoneal extension.
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Treatment options
•Antibiotics
•Aspiration
•Percutaneous drainage
•Surgical drainage.
Percutaneous drainage plus i.v antibiotics
treatment of choice
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ANTIBIOTICS
• REGIMEN
-Broad spectrum synthetic penicillin
-Aminoglycoside/3rd
gen cephalosporin
-Metronidazole
• Aminoglycoside toxicity-aztreonam,
imipenem
• Penicillin allergy-imipenem
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• Duration of treatment must be
individualised
• iv antibiotics for 2 weeks
• Oral antibiotics for 1 month
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Multiple abscesses are more problematic
and can require up to 12 weeks of
therapy.
Both the clinical and radiographic
progress of the patient should guide the
length of therapy
FUNGAL ABSCESS – Amphotericin B,
Fluconazole
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ASPIRATION
• Useful in young , otherwise healthy
patients with solitary abscess and no
co-existing intra-abdominal pathology
• Pus can be collected for C & S
• Must be radiologically guided
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PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE
• Must be radiologically guided
• Most useful for critically ill patients who
cannot undergo surgery
• Best for solitary, uniseptate abscess
• Absolute CI – associated biliary or intra-
abdominal pathology, coagulopathy
• Relative CI – multiple abscesses and
generalised ascites
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PROCEDURE
• MODIFIED SELDINGER TECHNIQUE
• Localise abscess with USG/CT guidance
• A 20-gauge teflon sleeve with needle stop is introduced through
safest anatomic route possible
• Insert a J wire
• A no. 8-14 french dialator and then pigtail catheters are advanced
over the wire
• Abscess evacuated by manual syringe suction
• Catheter secured to skin
• Catheter irrigated 2-3 times/day with sterile saline
• Kept in place till output < 10cc/day or cavity collapse documented
by serial CT
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SURGICAL DRAINAGE
• EXPLORATORY LAPAROTOMY -
For diagnosing intra-abdominal pathology
-provides concurrent Rx of both abscess
and its source
-best for multiple abscesses and those
inaccessible to PCD, co-existing biliary
pathology
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• EXTRA PERITONEAL APPROACH
-subcostal
-transpleural
-retroperitoneal
. Used only for selected abscesses located
superiorly in liver dome
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• TRANSPERITONEAL APPROACH
-Standard Rx for patients requiring surgical
drainage
-Bimanual exmn of liver and intraoperative USG
possible
-Abscess opened with cautery after localisation
-Loculations broken down with finger dissection
-Biopsy of abscess wall and nl liver taken
-Abscess site irrigated and soft, closed-suction drains
placed within abscess cavity in dependent locations
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• HEPATIC RESECTION
• Wedge resection or formal lobectomy
-Isolated lobar involvement with single or
multiple non healing abscesses
-Patients with infected hepatic malignancy
-Hemobilia
-Chronic granulomatous d/s
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• LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY
-Limited role
-Useful in diagnosing concurrent abd
pathology
-Laparoscopically guided liver biopsy
-Catheter placed under laparoscopic
guidance
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AMOEBIC LIVER ABSCESS
• Tropical and subtropical areas of world
are endemic
• Early descriptions came from India
• Osler reported co-existent hepatic and
colonic amoebiasis in 1890
• Exceed PLA in overall frequency
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• Caused by Entamoeba histolytica
• Reaches liver from colon via
-Portal vein
-Mesenteric lymphatics
-Intraperitoneal spread
• Incidence : 0.0013%
• More among low socioeconomic gps
• More among men
• Peak at 3rd
and 4th
decades of life
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PATHOLOGY
• Abscess usually large, single and superficial
• Right lobe usually affected
• Fluid interior, inner wall, outer capsule
-Abscess fluid resembles “anchovy sauce”
-Reddish brown due to digested liver tissue
and RBC
-Sterile and odourless
• Inner wall contains trophozoites-biopsy
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Bottle of anchovy sauce and amoebic pus
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CLINICAL FEATURES
• Pain, diarrhoea, cough
• Shock
• Fever and jaundice – less common
INVESTIGATIONS
Laboratory
• LFT abnormalities – less common
• PT increase
• Stool exmn : cyst and trophozoites
-only in 15-50%
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SEROLOGY
• Indirect hemagglutination test/IHA
Gel diffusion precipitin/GDP
• Positive if dilutions exceed 1:128
• Result within 24 hrs
DIAGNOSTIC ASPIRATION
• To r/o PLA when serology is negative
• CI in malignancy and echinococcal cyst
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RADIOLOGY
• USG – Imaging modality of choice
• CT Scan – suspecting PLA
- Positive serological test with negative
hepatic sonogram
• MRI
• Nuclear medicine liver scan
• X-RAY CHEST
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USG of amebic abscess-Note peripheral
location, rounded shape, poor rim with
internal echoes
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CT showing superficial abscess
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CT scan of amebic abscess (A). The lesion is
peripherally located and round. Rim is
nonenhancing but shows peripheral edema (black
arrows). Note the extension into the intercostal
space (white arrows).
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TREATMENT
• ANTIBIOTICS
Most uncomplicated amebic liver abscesses can be treated
successfully with amebicidal drug therapy alone.
After completion of treatment with tissue amebicides, administer
luminal amebicides(diloxanide furoate) for eradication of the
asymptomatic colonization state.
Failure to use luminal agents can lead to relapse of infection in
approximately 10% of patients.
 Metronidazole drug of choice for amebic liver abscess (750 mg 3
times a day orally for 10 days)
Alternatives :Emetine(cardiotoxic) ,chloroquine
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THERAPEUTIC ASPIRATION
• High risk of abscess rupture, as defined by cavity
size greater than 5 cm/250ml vol
• Left lobe liver abscess, which is associated with
higher mortality and frequency of peritoneal leak
or rupture into the pericardium
• Treatment failure in which pain and fever persists
despite 3 days of antibiotics.
• When metronidazole is CI – pregnancy
• To relieve pressure symptoms
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PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE
• Most useful for pulmonary, peritoneal and
pericardial complications
• Risk of secondary infection
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Surgical drainage-Indications
• Left lobe abscess not amenable to percutaneous
drainage
• Life threatening haemorrhage with or without
intraperitoneal rupture of abscess.
• Amoebic abscess eroding into neighbouring
structures
• Septicemia from secondary infection
• Failure of response to conservative therapy
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COMPLICATIONS
• Rupture into peritoneum or thorax
• Abscess eroding into nearby structures
• Secondary infection
• Hemobilia
• Liver failure
• Diaphragm perforation
• Bronchopleural,biliopleural and
biliobronchial fistulas
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Brownish pus aspirated from gall bladder
adherent to inferior surface amoebic liver
abscess.
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Showing rupture of a left lobe amoebic liver
abscess into pericardium as seen at autopsy
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Amoebic liver abscess ruptured into pleural space
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SUMMARY
• If untreated LA is potentially fatal.
• Must be diagnosed & treated promptly
• Investigations-LFT,USG and CT
• SEROLOGY-corner stone to differentiate
• PLA-Antibiotics plus drainage
• Causative pathology should also be treated
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• ALA-most cases treated with amebicidal
agents alone with drainage procedures
reserved for resistant or complicated cases
• Luminal amebicides should also be given
• When there is high index of suspicion for
LA Rx should not be withheld until
diagnosis is confirmed
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    LIVER ABSCESS • 2TYPES -PYOGENIC -AMOEBIC pgmedicalworld.com
  • 3.
    PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS HISTORY •Described since the time of Hippocrates (4000 BC). • 1890 – Osler documented amoebae in stool and abscess of the same patient. • Dieulafoy described multiple hepatic abscess secondary to pylephlebitis following appendicitis . • In 1938 Ochsner's classic review heralded surgical drainage as the definitive therapy. pgmedicalworld.com
  • 4.
    • INCIDENCE: 0.016% •Majority clinically silent • Peak at 7th decade • Men and women equally affected • Elderly and immunosuppressed more affected • RACE: no role pgmedicalworld.com
  • 5.
    ETIOLOGY • Biliary causes– 40% -partial or complete obs of biliary tract with ascending cholangitis - biliary manipulations like cholangiography,PCT etc • Portal venous route –20% -perforated Ca colon -diverticulitis -appendicitis with pylephlebitis pgmedicalworld.com
  • 6.
    • Hepatic arterialroute –12% -iv drug abuse and its complications -systemic bacteremia-umbilical artery catheterisation - hepatic artery chemoembolisation • Traumatic causes-4% -penetrating trauma to liver -cryosurgical ablation of liver tumors pgmedicalworld.com
  • 7.
    • Direct extension-6%-subphrenic abscess -perforated peptic ulcers - gangrenous cholecystitis • Cryptogenic abscess-20% -asso with DM,malignancy, immunosuppression pgmedicalworld.com
  • 8.
    Pathology • Usually multiple, small abscesses • More on right lobe of liver BACTERIOLOGY • Staph aureus,Strepto pyogenes,Strepto milleri,strepto faecalis • E coli,Klebsiella,Proteus • Bacteroids,Clostridium,Actinomyces • TB • Fungi-Candida,Aspergillus pgmedicalworld.com
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    CLINICAL FEATURES • SYMPTOMS-Fever (continuous or spiking) - Chills, Malaise - Anorexia,Weight loss -Pain - Nausea and vomiting- Pruritus,Diarrhoea,Cough -PUO pgmedicalworld.com
  • 10.
    • SIGNS -Tenderness inright upper quadrant -Hepatomegaly - Jaundice,right upper quad mass,ascites,pleural effusion pgmedicalworld.com
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    IVESTIGATIONS • LABORATORY -Leucocytosis withshift to left WBC count >10000/mm3 -Anaemia PCV <36% -Hypoalbuminemia Albumin <3g/dl -LFT -ALP pgmedicalworld.com
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    -Gamma glutamyl transpeptidase -Bilurubin>2 gram/dl -SGOT BLOOD CULTURE Aspiration of abscess and C & S pgmedicalworld.com
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    RADIOLOGICAL • X-RAY ABD -Rightupper quad gas, air-fluid level in abscess cavity or ileus pgmedicalworld.com
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    • USG ABDOMEN -usedas a preliminary screen -identify lesions > 2cm in dia -differentiating cystic from solid lesions -diagnosis of gall stones pgmedicalworld.com
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    Echo-poor area inthe right lobe of liver pgmedicalworld.com
  • 17.
    Multiple abscess inthe right lobe of liver pgmedicalworld.com
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    • CT SCAN -investigationof choice -better diagnosis of concurrent or causative pathology -abscess > 0.5 cm in dia -small abscesses near diaphragm and those in fatty liver CONTRAST ENHANCED CT pgmedicalworld.com
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    Multiloculated abscess inthe right lobe pgmedicalworld.com
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    An abscess inthe left lobe pgmedicalworld.com
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    • MRI -lesions assmall as 0.3 cm in dia -best for defining hepatic venous anatomy -useful for patients requiring liver resection pgmedicalworld.com
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    • NUCLEAR MEDICINELIVER SCAN Previously used • X-RAY CHEST Right pleural effusion Atelectasis Elevated hemi diaphragm pgmedicalworld.com
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    • BARIUM CONTRSTSTUDIES OF UPPER AND LOWER GIT • Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography/ERC • Per cutaneous cholangiography/PTC pgmedicalworld.com
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    TREATMENT • An untreatedhepatic abscess is nearly uniformly fatal due to complications that include sepsis, empyema, or peritonitis from rupture into the pleural or peritoneal spaces, and retroperitoneal extension. pgmedicalworld.com
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    Treatment options •Antibiotics •Aspiration •Percutaneous drainage •Surgicaldrainage. Percutaneous drainage plus i.v antibiotics treatment of choice pgmedicalworld.com
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    ANTIBIOTICS • REGIMEN -Broad spectrumsynthetic penicillin -Aminoglycoside/3rd gen cephalosporin -Metronidazole • Aminoglycoside toxicity-aztreonam, imipenem • Penicillin allergy-imipenem pgmedicalworld.com
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    • Duration oftreatment must be individualised • iv antibiotics for 2 weeks • Oral antibiotics for 1 month pgmedicalworld.com
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    Multiple abscesses aremore problematic and can require up to 12 weeks of therapy. Both the clinical and radiographic progress of the patient should guide the length of therapy FUNGAL ABSCESS – Amphotericin B, Fluconazole pgmedicalworld.com
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    ASPIRATION • Useful inyoung , otherwise healthy patients with solitary abscess and no co-existing intra-abdominal pathology • Pus can be collected for C & S • Must be radiologically guided pgmedicalworld.com
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    PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE • Mustbe radiologically guided • Most useful for critically ill patients who cannot undergo surgery • Best for solitary, uniseptate abscess • Absolute CI – associated biliary or intra- abdominal pathology, coagulopathy • Relative CI – multiple abscesses and generalised ascites pgmedicalworld.com
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    PROCEDURE • MODIFIED SELDINGERTECHNIQUE • Localise abscess with USG/CT guidance • A 20-gauge teflon sleeve with needle stop is introduced through safest anatomic route possible • Insert a J wire • A no. 8-14 french dialator and then pigtail catheters are advanced over the wire • Abscess evacuated by manual syringe suction • Catheter secured to skin • Catheter irrigated 2-3 times/day with sterile saline • Kept in place till output < 10cc/day or cavity collapse documented by serial CT pgmedicalworld.com
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    SURGICAL DRAINAGE • EXPLORATORYLAPAROTOMY - For diagnosing intra-abdominal pathology -provides concurrent Rx of both abscess and its source -best for multiple abscesses and those inaccessible to PCD, co-existing biliary pathology pgmedicalworld.com
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    • EXTRA PERITONEALAPPROACH -subcostal -transpleural -retroperitoneal . Used only for selected abscesses located superiorly in liver dome pgmedicalworld.com
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    • TRANSPERITONEAL APPROACH -StandardRx for patients requiring surgical drainage -Bimanual exmn of liver and intraoperative USG possible -Abscess opened with cautery after localisation -Loculations broken down with finger dissection -Biopsy of abscess wall and nl liver taken -Abscess site irrigated and soft, closed-suction drains placed within abscess cavity in dependent locations pgmedicalworld.com
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    • HEPATIC RESECTION •Wedge resection or formal lobectomy -Isolated lobar involvement with single or multiple non healing abscesses -Patients with infected hepatic malignancy -Hemobilia -Chronic granulomatous d/s pgmedicalworld.com
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    • LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY -Limitedrole -Useful in diagnosing concurrent abd pathology -Laparoscopically guided liver biopsy -Catheter placed under laparoscopic guidance pgmedicalworld.com
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    AMOEBIC LIVER ABSCESS •Tropical and subtropical areas of world are endemic • Early descriptions came from India • Osler reported co-existent hepatic and colonic amoebiasis in 1890 • Exceed PLA in overall frequency pgmedicalworld.com
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    • Caused byEntamoeba histolytica • Reaches liver from colon via -Portal vein -Mesenteric lymphatics -Intraperitoneal spread • Incidence : 0.0013% • More among low socioeconomic gps • More among men • Peak at 3rd and 4th decades of life pgmedicalworld.com
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    PATHOLOGY • Abscess usuallylarge, single and superficial • Right lobe usually affected • Fluid interior, inner wall, outer capsule -Abscess fluid resembles “anchovy sauce” -Reddish brown due to digested liver tissue and RBC -Sterile and odourless • Inner wall contains trophozoites-biopsy pgmedicalworld.com
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    Bottle of anchovysauce and amoebic pus pgmedicalworld.com
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    CLINICAL FEATURES • Pain,diarrhoea, cough • Shock • Fever and jaundice – less common INVESTIGATIONS Laboratory • LFT abnormalities – less common • PT increase • Stool exmn : cyst and trophozoites -only in 15-50% pgmedicalworld.com
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    SEROLOGY • Indirect hemagglutinationtest/IHA Gel diffusion precipitin/GDP • Positive if dilutions exceed 1:128 • Result within 24 hrs DIAGNOSTIC ASPIRATION • To r/o PLA when serology is negative • CI in malignancy and echinococcal cyst pgmedicalworld.com
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    RADIOLOGY • USG –Imaging modality of choice • CT Scan – suspecting PLA - Positive serological test with negative hepatic sonogram • MRI • Nuclear medicine liver scan • X-RAY CHEST pgmedicalworld.com
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    USG of amebicabscess-Note peripheral location, rounded shape, poor rim with internal echoes pgmedicalworld.com
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    CT showing superficialabscess pgmedicalworld.com
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    CT scan ofamebic abscess (A). The lesion is peripherally located and round. Rim is nonenhancing but shows peripheral edema (black arrows). Note the extension into the intercostal space (white arrows). pgmedicalworld.com
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    TREATMENT • ANTIBIOTICS Most uncomplicatedamebic liver abscesses can be treated successfully with amebicidal drug therapy alone. After completion of treatment with tissue amebicides, administer luminal amebicides(diloxanide furoate) for eradication of the asymptomatic colonization state. Failure to use luminal agents can lead to relapse of infection in approximately 10% of patients.  Metronidazole drug of choice for amebic liver abscess (750 mg 3 times a day orally for 10 days) Alternatives :Emetine(cardiotoxic) ,chloroquine pgmedicalworld.com
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    THERAPEUTIC ASPIRATION • Highrisk of abscess rupture, as defined by cavity size greater than 5 cm/250ml vol • Left lobe liver abscess, which is associated with higher mortality and frequency of peritoneal leak or rupture into the pericardium • Treatment failure in which pain and fever persists despite 3 days of antibiotics. • When metronidazole is CI – pregnancy • To relieve pressure symptoms pgmedicalworld.com
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    PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE • Mostuseful for pulmonary, peritoneal and pericardial complications • Risk of secondary infection pgmedicalworld.com
  • 51.
    Surgical drainage-Indications • Leftlobe abscess not amenable to percutaneous drainage • Life threatening haemorrhage with or without intraperitoneal rupture of abscess. • Amoebic abscess eroding into neighbouring structures • Septicemia from secondary infection • Failure of response to conservative therapy pgmedicalworld.com
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    COMPLICATIONS • Rupture intoperitoneum or thorax • Abscess eroding into nearby structures • Secondary infection • Hemobilia • Liver failure • Diaphragm perforation • Bronchopleural,biliopleural and biliobronchial fistulas pgmedicalworld.com
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    Brownish pus aspiratedfrom gall bladder adherent to inferior surface amoebic liver abscess. pgmedicalworld.com
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    Showing rupture ofa left lobe amoebic liver abscess into pericardium as seen at autopsy pgmedicalworld.com
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    Amoebic liver abscessruptured into pleural space pgmedicalworld.com
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    SUMMARY • If untreatedLA is potentially fatal. • Must be diagnosed & treated promptly • Investigations-LFT,USG and CT • SEROLOGY-corner stone to differentiate • PLA-Antibiotics plus drainage • Causative pathology should also be treated pgmedicalworld.com
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    • ALA-most casestreated with amebicidal agents alone with drainage procedures reserved for resistant or complicated cases • Luminal amebicides should also be given • When there is high index of suspicion for LA Rx should not be withheld until diagnosis is confirmed pgmedicalworld.com
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