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Absceso hepático piógeno. Presentación de un caso

2021; Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Guantánamo; Volume: 100; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

1028-9933

Iliana Guerra-Macías, Gabriel Cutié-Taquechel, Frank Ariel Castañeda-Urdaneta,

Amoebic Infections and Treatments

The clinical case of a 79-year-old man with chronic alcoholism and other associated comorbidities presented, admitted with a fever of three days of evolution and suspected diagnosis of dengue at the Hospital Clinico Quirurgico Docente “Dr. Ambrosio Grillo Portuondo”, from Santiago de Cuba province. By multidisciplinary consensus, a pyogenic liver abscess of subsegments VII-VIII of the liver was diagnosed. An emergency laparotomy was performed with drainage of the purulent collection. He presented superficial infection of the surgical site, but the postoperative evolution was satisfactory and he was discharged cured 7 days later.