This retrospective case review was conducted on 35 Thai hospitalized HBV carriers who had diagnosis of liver abscess. A high rate of amoebic liver abscess in this series (37.1%) was demonstrated ...

Amoebic liver abscess is the most common extraintestinal form of invasive amoebiasis. [67] About 20% of patients with liver abscess have previously had clinical dysentery. [67] Infection can ...

Obesity and diabetes often overshadow liver health, yet the liver is significantly stressed in both conditions, potentially leading to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Early stages of ...

Mar. 24, 2025 — A comprehensive study shows that people with fatty liver disease have almost twice the mortality rate of the general population. They have an increased risk of dying from both ...

“After days of waiting, unfortunately, I did find out today that my breast cancer has spread to the liver,” Thurston detailed in a Friday Instagram video. “It is fairly small, however it ...

Doctors performed an ultrasound of the man's abdomen and found an abscess — a pus-filled mass — in the right lobe of his liver. They drained the abscess and gave the patient a 10-day course of ...

An AST blood test measures levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and helps determine liver function. Less than 40 IU/L is normal, but too much of this enzyme can indicate a problem ...

With beef liver prices depressed at around $3 at the packer level, liver condemnations due to abscesses represent a relatively minor economic problem. But, says West Texas A&M University Animal ...

The following is a summary of “Prognosis of liver abscess in the intensive care unit (POLAIR), a multicentre observational study,” published in the April 2025 issue of Critical Care by Goff et al.

The pain began as a dull ache in his abdomen. Fever followed. At first glance, doctors saw a common problem—a liver abscess, likely due to infection. They drained the pus, prescribed antibiotics ...

Abdominal CT investigations detected two liver abscesses and chronic colitis. Positive amoebic serology and a positive PCR test for E. histolytica in the hepatic liquid and faeces confirmed the ...