The pain began as a dull ache in his abdomen. Fever followed. At first glance, doctors saw a common problem—a liver abscess, ...
A man went to the hospital several times with gut pain and a fever — and it turned out that his relatively common symptoms ...
Liver abscesses form when pockets of pus develop within the liver tissue, usually resulting from bacterial infections ... studies such as ultrasounds, CT scans, or MRIs provide detailed views ...
Of interest, this finding is not concordant with the previous bacteriology study of liver abscesses in Taiwan, where the prevalence of HBV infection is very high, which reported about 20% of ...
Doctors performed an ultrasound of the man's abdomen and found an abscess ... that fights infections, and lower-than-average levels of albumin, a protein produced in the liver.