Pyogenic Liver Abscess Secondary to Sigmoid Diverticulitis: An Unusual Presentation
Pyogenic liver abscesses, despite being a rare complication of diverticulitis and inflammatory bowel disease, are potentially serious life-threatening pathologies. Diverticular diseases can lead to disruption of the colonic mucosal barrier and can serve as a route for bacterial infection via the por...
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| description | Pyogenic liver abscesses, despite being a rare complication of diverticulitis and inflammatory bowel disease, are potentially serious life-threatening pathologies. Diverticular diseases can lead to disruption of the colonic mucosal barrier and can serve as a route for bacterial infection via the portal venous system. This patient had such a delayed presentation due to his atypical symptoms; he developed large abscess formation, detected by computed tomography, eventually requiring an ultrasound-guided drain followed by a colonoscopy. The present report describes an elderly gentleman who developed a bacterial liver abscess due to seeding of a commensal organism caused by sigmoid diverticulitis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-04aa6c72bafe469894d8b0abf92382d52022-12-21T19:02:16ZengKarger PublishersCase Reports in Gastroenterology1662-06312020-04-0114116517110.1159/000506932506932Pyogenic Liver Abscess Secondary to Sigmoid Diverticulitis: An Unusual PresentationEdward Paul Joseph MuscatPyogenic liver abscesses, despite being a rare complication of diverticulitis and inflammatory bowel disease, are potentially serious life-threatening pathologies. Diverticular diseases can lead to disruption of the colonic mucosal barrier and can serve as a route for bacterial infection via the portal venous system. This patient had such a delayed presentation due to his atypical symptoms; he developed large abscess formation, detected by computed tomography, eventually requiring an ultrasound-guided drain followed by a colonoscopy. The present report describes an elderly gentleman who developed a bacterial liver abscess due to seeding of a commensal organism caused by sigmoid diverticulitis.https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/506932diverticulitisabscessinfectionstreptococcus |
| spellingShingle | Edward Paul Joseph Muscat Pyogenic Liver Abscess Secondary to Sigmoid Diverticulitis: An Unusual Presentation Case Reports in Gastroenterology diverticulitis abscess infection streptococcus |
| title | Pyogenic Liver Abscess Secondary to Sigmoid Diverticulitis: An Unusual Presentation |
| title_full | Pyogenic Liver Abscess Secondary to Sigmoid Diverticulitis: An Unusual Presentation |
| title_fullStr | Pyogenic Liver Abscess Secondary to Sigmoid Diverticulitis: An Unusual Presentation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pyogenic Liver Abscess Secondary to Sigmoid Diverticulitis: An Unusual Presentation |
| title_short | Pyogenic Liver Abscess Secondary to Sigmoid Diverticulitis: An Unusual Presentation |
| title_sort | pyogenic liver abscess secondary to sigmoid diverticulitis an unusual presentation |
| topic | diverticulitis abscess infection streptococcus |
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