Journals / GORM:Gynecology Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine / 1997 / Cilt: 3 - Sayı: 3
Pyogenic liver abscess in pregnancy
- Pages
- 459–462
- DOI
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To review and discuss the prognosis and current treatment modalities in pyogenic liver abscess during pregnancy. DESIGN: A 28 years old pregnant woman who, applied to the emergency unit of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, and was found to have pyogenic liver abscess during cesarean section is reported in this article. After the literature was reviewed, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of pyogenic liver abscess during pregnancy, which is very rare* are also discussed. ' ' CONCLUSION: A pregnant woman with pyogenic liver abscess who has poor prognostic factors, warrants laparotomy in the third trimester. For some abscesses which are not able to be drained during laparotomy, US guided drainage combined with antibiotic therapy is the method of choice. In the first or second trimester of pregnancy, according to the prognostic factors for hepatic abscess, US guided drainage may be performed as an initial procedure. (Gynecol Obstet Reprod Med 1997; 3:459-462)
Özet
OBJECTIVE: To review and discuss the prognosis and current treatment modalities in pyogenic liver abscess during pregnancy. DESIGN: A 28 years old pregnant woman who, applied to the emergency unit of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, and was found to have pyogenic liver abscess during cesarean section is reported in this article. After the literature was reviewed, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of pyogenic liver abscess during pregnancy, which is very rare* are also discussed. ' ' CONCLUSION: A pregnant woman with pyogenic liver abscess who has poor prognostic factors, warrants laparotomy in the third trimester. For some abscesses which are not able to be drained during laparotomy, US guided drainage combined with antibiotic therapy is the method of choice. In the first or second trimester of pregnancy, according to the prognostic factors for hepatic abscess, US guided drainage may be performed as an initial procedure. (Gynecol Obstet Reprod Med 1997; 3:459-462)