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| Article Title |
Amebic liver abscess by Entamoeba histolytica
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| All Author List |
Daisuke Usuda, Shiho Tsuge, Riki Sakurai, Kenji Kawai, Shun Matsubara, Risa Tanaka, Makoto Suzuki, Hayabusa Takano, Shintaro Shimozawa, Yuta Hotchi, Shungo Tokunaga, Ippei Osugi, Risa Katou, Sakurako Ito, Kentaro Mishima, Akihiko Kondo, Keiko Mizuno, Hiroki Takami, Takayuki Komatsu, Jiro Oba, Tomohisa Nomura and Manabu Sugita |
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| Corresponding Author |
Daisuke Usuda, MD, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Doctor, Senior Lecturer, Staff Physician, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, 3-1-10, Takanodai, Nerima 177-8521, Tokyo, Japan. d.usuda.qa@juntendo.ac.jp |
| Key Words |
Amebic liver abscess; Entamoeba histolytica; Polymerase chain reaction; Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; Percutaneous catheter drainage; Amebicidal drug |
| Core Tip |
Amebic liver abscesses are the most commonly encountered extraintestinal manifestation of human invasive amebiasis, which results from Entamoeba histolytica. It breaches the host’s innate defenses and invades the intestinal mucosa. Trophozoites enter the circulatory system and are filtered in the liver and produce abscesses. The diagnostics primarily aim to use PCR or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to detect Entamoeba histolytica. Medical treatment of amebic liver abscesses is possible using an amebicidal drug and a luminal cysticidal agent. Prognoses are generally good. Elucidating the detailed pathogenesis and establishing which diagnostic methods are most efficacious will necessitate further analyses of similar clinical cases. |
| Publish Date |
2022-12-26 18:23 |
| Citation |
Usuda D, Tsuge S, Sakurai R, Kawai K, Matsubara S, Tanaka R, Suzuki M, Takano H, Shimozawa S, Hotchi Y, Tokunaga S, Osugi I, Katou R, Ito S, Mishima K, Kondo A, Mizuno K, Takami H, Komatsu T, Oba J, Nomura T, Sugita M. Amebic liver abscess by Entamoeba histolytica. World J Clin Cases 2022; 10(36): 13157-13166 |
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| DOI |
https://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i36.13157 |
