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Concomitant use of corticosteroid and antimicrobials for liver abscesses in patients with chronic granulomatous disease

  • Shin, Kyung-Sue;Lee, Mu Suk
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • 제59권4호
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    • pp.196-201
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    • 2016
  • Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare inherited disorder caused by defective nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase enzyme and characterized by recurrent bacterial and fungal infections. Although liver abscess is a common manifestation of CGD, its management in CGD patients is not well-defined. In addition, the generalized guidelines for treating liver abscesses do not necessarily apply to CGD patients. Corticosteroids are commonly used to control granulomatous complications, such as inflammatory gastrointestinal and genitourinary lesions, in patients with CGD, Corticosteroids have also been used in combination with antimicrobials to treat refractory infections in patients with CGD. Because corticosteroids are capable of suppressing symptomatic inflammation, all potential infections must be adequately controlled prior to corticosteroid initiation. We report 3 typical CGD cases with liver abscesses refractory to conventional treatments that were successfully treated with the concomitant use of corticosteroid and antimicrobials. It remains unclear whether corticosteroid therapy is required for liver abscesses in CGD refractory to conventional treatments. However, based on our observations, use of corticosteroids in combination with optimal antimicrobials should be considered for refractory liver abscesses in CGD.

간흡충 감염에 의한 간내담도의 낭성변화와 동반된 아메바성 농양 - 세침흡인 세포학적 검사로 진단된 1례 - (A Case with Unusual Manifestation of Multiple Amebic Liver Abscesses by Coinfection with Clonorchis Sinensis - Diagnosed by CT-guided Fine Needle Aspiration -)

  • 김성숙;김정란;이현경;이승희;한동선;홍성태
    • 대한세포병리학회지
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    • 제4권2호
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    • pp.176-180
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    • 1993
  • Clonorchiasis is common in Korea. The coinfection of amebic abscess with clonorchiasis is not rare in endemic areas. The coinfection may influence on its manifestations each other. We experienced a human case with unusal manifestation of amebic liver abscess associated with coinfection by Clonorchisis sinensis. The case was an 80-year-old female. She lived in Yongil-gun, Kyongsangbuk-do, Korea, She had multiple amebic abscess cavities in the liver, one of which subsided spontaneously and others newly appeared. She was diagnosed by CT guided aspiration of the cyst, which revealed trophozoites of ameba and eggs of C. sinensis. She was treated with praziquantel and metronidazale and was cured.

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폐농양의 임상적 고찰 (A Clinical Review of Lung Abscess - 27 cases -)

  • 김민호
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • 제20권3호
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    • pp.552-556
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    • 1987
  • During the preantibiotic era, lung abscess carried a high mortality, however, with the introduction of penicillin and subsequently other antibiotics, significant improvement was resulted. Clinical review was performed on 27 cases of lung abscess, those were admitted and treated at the Department. of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chonbuk University Hospital, from 1979 to August, 1986. The following results were obtained. The most common age of occurrence was between the age of 40 and 60 [14 cases] and 22 cases were male patients. The common symptoms were cough, putrid sputum production, fever and chilliness. Numerous etiological factors may play a role in the formation of lung abscess; pneumonia [7 cases], aspiration [5 cases], bronchiectasis [2 cases], liver abscess [1 case] and broncholith [1 case]. The bacteriologic study revealed increased incidence of Enterobacteriaceae [15 cases]. The treatment methods were postural drainage [12 cases]. pneumonostomy [5 cases], lobectomy [8 cases], thoracostomy [2 cases].

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Liver Color Scan에 대(對)한 고찰(考察) (Observation of Liver Color Scan)

  • 최용규;안승봉
    • 대한핵의학회지
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    • 제3권2호
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 1969
  • In the past few years, scintigraphy has become increasingly important in clinical practice, and the use of a color-printing technique has permited a more accurate interpretation of the scan image. Our liver color scintigrams consist of 51 hepatomas, 35 liver cirrhosis, 22 liver abscessis, 10 hepatitis and other 13 cases of the liver diseases which were clinically arid pathologically diagnosed at Sevarance Hospital, Yonsei Univ., since Feb. 1969 through Sept. 1969. These scintigrams have been analized in terms of various pathologic morphology, such as size, shape, margin of the liver, distribution of radioactivity, and shape of the space occupying lesions. The results are as follows: 1. Enlargement of the liver was the most common finding in the diseased livers. The Rt. lobe enlargement was particularly prominent in the liver abscess. 2. Irregular distribution of radioactivity in the liver (so called mottling) was present in 78% of hepatoma, while it was seen only in 31% of liver abscesses. 3. Liver cirrhosis tends to show perihilar accumulation of the isotope (57%). 4. The deformity of the lower most angle of the Rt. lobe, and the Lt. lateral margin of the Lt. lobe was also impressive throughout the cases ($74{\sim}95%$ of all diseased livers). 5. The frequency of visualization of the spleen was influenced by the size of space occupying lesions and the amount of functioning liver. 6. Differentiation between the liver abscess and hepatoma seems to be possible on scintigram, when shape and margin of defect and patterns of distribution of radioactivity in the remaining liver are clearly demonstrated.

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Klebsiella oxytoca에 의한 간농양 내 거짓동맥류: 증례 보고 (Liver Abscess Caused by Klebsiella oxytoca with Hepatic Artery Pseudoaneurysm: A Case Report)

  • 이재영;이형남;이웅희;신형철;김승수;황정아
    • 대한영상의학회지
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    • 제81권6호
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    • pp.1448-1452
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    • 2020
  • 간동맥 거짓동맥류는 드문 질환이나 잠재적으로 생명을 위협할 수 있는 질환으로 외상 이후에 발생하는 경우가 많다. 때문에 빠른 진단과 적절한 치료가 혈복강과 같은 심각한 결과를 예방하기 위해 필수적이다. 우리는 의인적 손상 없이 Klebsiella oxytoca에 의한 간농양에 생긴 간동맥 거짓동맥류의 드문 증례를 보고하는 바이다. 이 증례의 독특한 특징은 농양 공간이 간동맥과 생긴 누공에 의해 거짓동맥류가 되었다는 점이다. 이 증례로부터 의인성 손상이 없이 환자의 임상 과정이 좋지 않은 경우 혈관 관련 합병증에 주의를 기울여야 함을 알 수 있으며 혈관 내 시술의 효과적이고 안전한 치료 방법이 될 수 있음을 알 수 있다.

Portal Hypertension of a Delayed Onset Following Liver Abscesses in a 12-Month-Old Infant: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

  • Al-Qurashi, Faisal Othman;Aladsani, Ahmed Abdullah;Qanea, Fatema Khalil Al;Faisal, Sarah Yousef
    • Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.400-406
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    • 2019
  • We report a 12-month-old female infant who had a history of neonatal sepsis with liver micro-abscesses that resolved with intravenous antibiotics during neonatal period. During her neonatal admission period, no umbilical vein catheter was inserted. Also, she did not undergo any abdominal surgeries or had a postnatal history of necrotizing enterocolitis. However, the child developed upper gastrointestinal bleeding in form of hematemesis and melena secondary to esophageal varices at the age of 12 months with an extra-hepatic portal vein obstruction with cavernous transformation and portal hypertension subsequently. The child underwent a successful endoscopic injection sclerotherapy. She is now 20-month-old and has portal hypertension but otherwise asymptomatic. We are proposing the possibility of a delayed-onset portal hypertension as a complication of liver abscess and neonatal sepsis.

술중 심정지에 대한 심소생 치료 (Cardiac Resuscitation in the Uperating Room)

  • 김공수
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 1976
  • This is a report of 8 cases cardiac arrest developed in the operating room at Jeonbug university Hospital from January 1973 to October, 1975. Four patients of cardiac arrest developed during the elective operation, 3 during the emergency operation and the remaining one, bronchoscopy for foreign body removal under the general anesthesia. Immediate closed chest cardiac massage was performed in the 7 patients and the remaining one underwent open chest cardiac massage. Five of 7 patients with the closed chest cardiac massage regained consciousness and restored respiration, but 3 patients of these survived to be discharged. Two patients who underwent pneumonectomy for multiple lung abscess and open drainage for liver abscess, were resuscitated but did survived. The Latter died from bleeding due to rupture of the liver that developed during the closed chest cardiac massage. One patient who had open chest cardiac massage survived to be discharged without any sequele. Unsuccessful resuscitation was observed in two patients, one had a complication of malignant hyperthermia with muscle rigidity during gastrectomy for ulcer perforation and another had not firm support on the back during massage.

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Characterization of YS-27, an axenic Korean strain of Entamoeba histolytica

  • Park, Soon-Jung;Yong, Tai-Soon;Chang, Jae-Kyung;Im, Kyung-Il;Soh, Chin-Thack
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • 제37권1호
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    • pp.59-62
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    • 1999
  • Characterization of YS-27, an axenic Entamoeba strain. was performed by three different laboratory methods. Zymodeme analysis using starch gel electrophoresis and PCR with species-specific primers showed that YS-27 is a pathogenic Entamoeba which belongs to the group II zymodeme. Pathogenicity of YS-27 was further confirmed by observing the formation of liver abscess in Mongolian gerbils. These results showed that YS-27 is E. hisolytica.

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