ArticleEuropean heart journal. Case reports2020
A case report of ruptured amoebic liver abscess causing cardiac tamponade and requiring pericardial window.
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- Use of PCR in the diagnosis of pericardial amebiasis: a case report and systematic review of the literature.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Epidemiology, pathology, diagnosis, and management of amoebic liver abscesses in Sub-Saharan Africa: a retrospective cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Pyopericardium with cardiac tamponade caused by pyogenic liver abscess: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2025Article
- Accidental cannulation of amoebic liver abscess during pericardiocentesis: a case report.European heart journal. Case reports · 2024Article
- Amebic liver abscess: An update.World journal of hepatology · 2024Review
- Diversity and Plasticity of Virulent Characteristics ofTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Review
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- Successful stent implantation with the use of non contrast whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography and intravascular ultrasound in patient with allergy to iodinated contrast media.Cardiovascular intervention and therapeutics · 2021Article
- A rare case of purulent pericarditis arising from a hepato-pericardial fistula.Turkish journal of emergency medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAmoebiasis is a prevalent infection in the tropics. Amoebic liver abscess is the most common extraintestinal manifestation. Cardiac tamponade is an uncommon complication of amoebic liver abscess that may need urgent pericardiocentesis. CASE SUMMARY: A 25-year-old man presented with abdominal pain and fever for 1 month. Abdominal ultrasound revealed a 4.7 × 4.7 cm abscess in the left lobe of the liver. Percutaneous pigtail drainage was performed to evacuate the abscess. After 2 days, the patient developed signs of cardiac tamponade and bilateral pleural effusion, requiring urgent pericardiocentesis and chest drain insertion. Persistent posterior collection of thick abscess in pericardium needed pericardial window for complete drainage. The patient recovered completely after pericardial window. There was no evidence of chronic constrictive pericarditis after 1 year of follow-up. DISCUSSION: A rare complication of the amoebic liver abscess was observed in this young adult who developed cardiac tamponade, requiring an urgent pericardiocentesis, and later requiring pericardial window. Management includes amoebicidal and luminicidal drugs for complete eradication of
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