Liver abscess

Liver abscess's disease overview

What is

liver abscess?

The liver is an important organ in the human body, has the function of reserving energy, produces protein and eliminates substances that are harmful to the body. Liver abscess is a phenomenon of pus formation in liver organization due to infection or parasitic infection. The abscess may be large or small, which is a very dangerous disease because of many serious complications for humans.

Causes of Liver abscess's disease

  • The cause of liver abscess may be caused by bacteria and parasites. In developed countries, bacteria are the top ratio. But overall around the world, the parasitic liver abscess is the most common cause.

    • bacteria and parasites can penetrate the body, causing liver abscess in blood tracts, arteries and veins, lymphatic or biliary pathway.

    Bacteria and parasites are both in infections such as acne, boils, muscle abscess, lung abscess. In addition, liver abscess can also be caused by microorganisms that go back to biliary tract into the liver, causing localized infections called biliary liver abscess /p>

    Symptoms of Liver abscess's disease

    Symptoms of liver abscess do not appear immediately when appearing, it will manifest very severe clinical manifestations. The dangerous symptoms of the disease are:

  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Anorexia, weight loss
  • Sweating a lot

    • jaundice

    High fever with Run: 39 ° C - 40 ° C in the acute phase of the disease, then will decrease and last.

  • Pain ie right lower flank: This is a manifestation of the liver is swollen, if the abscess is acute, the pain spreads to the upper or the entire abdominal area.
  • Feeling tense, heavy in the lower right side: due to the liver swelling, pushing the diaphragm up, the patient has this feeling and sometimes it will cause cough and cough. >
  • Ribs 11-12 pain during clinical examination.

    • People at risk for Liver abscess's disease

    Risk factors leading to liver abscess are:

  • Women
  • Age 60-70. Or liver abscess is also available in newborns due to umbilical veins and infections.
  • No food safety and hygiene in eating.

    • People with liver diseases such as liver infection, liver failure.

    Prevention of Liver abscess's disease

    To prevent liver abscess, people need to do the following in daily life:

  • Perform cooking and drinking: Do not eat raw foods such as spring rolls, salad, blood pudding ... Do not drink water that has not been boiled like water, lakes, streams .. .
  • Do not eat raw vegetables has not been washed.
  • Wash your hands with soap before eating and after going to the toilet.
  • When the body shows signs of infection, it is necessary to go to medical facilities for examination and treatment immediately.
  • When suspected of liver abscess, the earliest examination should be monitored and treated, avoiding dangerous complications such as rupture of liver abscess, abdominal infections, tubular rupture digestion.

    • Diagnostic measures for Liver abscess's disease

    In addition to clinical manifestations such as right lower right flank pain, high fever, cough and shortness of breath ... to accurately diagnose liver abscess, it is necessary to do subclinical tests such as:

  • Blood tests to find white blood cells, normal mild isomemia.
  • Testing of blood sedimentation speed.
  • Liver function test: Alp increases, albumin decreases, increased liver enzymes, increased bilirubin.

    • 50% of the liver abscess will give positive blood implant results.

  • Stool test: contains eggs or nursing in Histolytica. If suspected of Histolytica infection, do more serum tests.
  • straight chest chest has improved right hodges, with pleural or pleural spills.
  • Liver abscess is also used to diagnose the disease.
  • Computerized tomography also detected liver abscess.

    • Radio bile endoscopy will indicate the location and cause of congestion, allowing stent or drainage.

    Liver abscess's disease treatments

    Currently, two common methods for liver abscess are medical treatment and latex drainage.Medical treatment:

    Patients with liver abscess are treated with broad spectrum antibiotics. In fact, patients with liver abscess are sucked by surgeons to suck the abscess before medical treatment. The specimens are later cultured and the patient is given the drug based on antibiotic results. This is a combination of treatment that brings high efficiency and saving funding for patients.

    Pus retardation:

    Most of the liver abscesses caused by bacteria or large liver abscess because the amoeba is not completely recovered only with antibiotics. Therefore, it is necessary to be saved based on ultrasound results or computerized tomography.

    This method is also necessary when the abscess breaks and the patient has peritonitis, the abscess is too large (> 5cm) or many walls, or patients with diseases in the abdomen that need surgery such as inflammation appendix.

    However, this method also has limitations such as difficulty applied to large abscesses, many abscesses, combined diseases such as biliary tract disease.

    See also:

  • Is liver abscess dangerous? P>
  • Liver abscess

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