Amebic Liver Abscess

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Related Diseases

1.	Amebiasis (Amoebiasis)
2.	Amebic Dysentery (Amoebic Dysentery)
3.	Infection
4.	Suppuration
5.	Colitis
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Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Amebic Liver Abscess:

1.	Metronidazole (Metric)FDA LinkGeneric 01/10/2004 - "Amebic liver abscess with panperitonitis treated successfully with intravenous injection of metronidazole]" 03/01/1985 - "Therefore, early diagnosis of amebic liver abscess in patients from endemic areas and treatment with metronidazole will result in successful therapy in 85% of cases" 01/01/1980 - "Delayed relapses of hepatic amoebiasis initially cured by metronidazole: 2 cases (author's transl)]" 06/01/2005 - "This study shows that almost 50% of the patients with amebic liver abscess failed to respond to metronidazole and required aspiration." 11/01/2003 - "Treatment of amoebic liver abscess with metronidazole alone or in combination with ultrasound-guided needle aspiration: a comparative, prospective and randomized study." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
2.	AntigensIBA 01/01/1980 - "The detection of amoebic antigen by counterimmunoelectrophoresis is very useful and important in the immunodiagnosis of invasive hepatic amoebiasis" 01/01/2008 - "Oral vaccination with recombinant Yersinia conferred significant protection against amoebic liver abscess formation when the antigen was expressed as a fusion molecule with the translocation domain of Yersinia outer protein E" 12/01/1990 - "histolytica antigen and may have contributed to the lack of development of effective in vivo cell-mediated immune responses following the onset of amebic liver abscesses." 09/01/1980 - "Protection against amebic liver abscess in hamsters by means of immunization with amebic antigen and some of its fractions." 04/01/2007 - "The study indicates that detection of E.histolytica by PCR is more sensitive than amoebic antigen detection and PCR assay can be successfully used to confirm the diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
3.	Proteins (Proteins, Gene)IBA 01/01/1990 - "The amoebic proteins most frequently recognised by sera from patients with cured amoebic liver abscess had molecular masses of 8, 13, 18, 22, 29, 38, 45, 67 and 94 kDa. Six plasma membrane-associated amoebic proteins of molecular mass 29, 38, 45-67 complex, 85 and 94 kDa were strongly recognised by such sera" 09/01/1998 - "Parenteral and oral vaccine preparations containing recombinant amebic proteins have been effective in preventing disease in a gerbil model of amebic liver abscess" 12/01/2004 - "Oral vaccination with recombinant Yersinia enterocolitica expressing hybrid type III proteins protects gerbils from amebic liver abscess." 01/01/1992 - "Plasma concentrations of these two proteins are discussed in relation to their possible implications in the immunopathogenesis of amoebic liver abscess." 07/01/1991 - "One of these proteins is the first protective immunogen identified in the animal model of amebic liver abscess" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
4.	Galactose (Galactopyranose)FDA LinkGeneric 08/01/2000 - "histolytica galactose-binding adhesin is sufficient to confer substantial protection against experimentally induced amebic liver abscesses" 01/01/1991 - "Protection of gerbils from amebic liver abscess by immunization with the galactose-specific adherence lectin of Entamoeba histolytica." 12/01/2004 - "Protection against invasive amebiasis was achieved in the gerbil model for amebic liver abscess by oral immunization with live attenuated Yersinia enterocolitica expressing the Entamoeba histolytica galactose-inhibitable lectin that has been fused to the Yersinia outer protein E (YopE)" 12/01/2003 - "We followed 93 subjects with amebic liver abscess (ALA) and 963 close associate controls at 3-month intervals for 36 months to characterize intestinal and humoral antibody responses to the amebic galactose-inhibitable lectin and to determine whether immunity developed to Entamoeba histolytica or Entamoeba dispar infection following cure of ALA" 07/01/2006 - "We monitored 93 subjects cured of amebic liver abscess (ALA) and 963 close associate controls in Durban, South Africa, and determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay that the intestinal immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibody response to the Entamoeba histolytica galactose-inhibitable adherence lectin is most accurately represented by a complex pattern of transitory peaks" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
5.	TinidazoleFDA Link 05/01/1978 - "A study of tinidazole in hepatic amoebiasis." 01/01/1991 - "A short recovery by tinidazole is proposed as tentative treatment against hepatic amoebiasis in rural area's medicine." 01/01/1991 - "Short treatment of hepatic amebiasis by tinidazole" 06/01/1985 - "Low dose tinidazole in the treatment of amoebic liver abscess." 01/01/1978 - "Amoebic liver abscess: 82 patients were given tinidazole in single doses of 2g on 3 consecutive days" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
6.	secnidazoleIBA 04/01/1996 - "Patients with hepatic amoebiasis appears to respond well to 5- to 7-day therapy with secnidazole, but the efficacy of this drug regimen requires further evaluation in larger numbers of patients" 04/01/1998 - "CONCLUSIONS: Secnidazole is as effective in the treatment of amebic liver abscess as metronidazole; it is equally well tolerated." 04/01/1998 - "OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of secnidazole with metronidazole in the treatment of amebic liver abscess" 04/01/1998 - "Randomized double-blind trial of metronidazole versus secnidazole in amebic liver abscess." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
7.	Immune Sera (Antisera)IBA 12/01/1990 - "The suppressive activity of immune sera diminished as the time between therapy for amebic liver abscesses and serum collection increased (P less than 0.05)" 01/01/1990 - "Immune sera from 15 patients with cured amoebic liver abscess were used to recognise the antigens of Entamoeba histolytica (HMI) by immunoblotting" 01/01/1988 - "Immune sera from 11 patients cured of amebic liver abscess was used to identify antigens of Entamoeba histolytica" 01/01/2005 - "It is a major cell surface antigen which is universally recognized by the immune sera of patients with amoebic liver abscess (ALA)" 06/01/2004 - "Gal/GalNAc lectin is universally recognized by the immune sera of patients with amoebic liver abscess" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
8.	AntibodiesIBA 09/01/1996 - "Protection against amebic liver abscess formation in the severe combined immunodeficient mouse by human anti-amebic antibodies." 07/01/2000 - "Interaction of antibodies with Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites from experimental amebic liver abscess: an immunocytochemical study." 05/01/1994 - "Our study demonstrates that antibodies to a recombinant version of the amoebic SREHP molecule can protect against amoebic liver abscess, and suggest the recombinant SREHP molecule should be considered as a possible vaccine candidate to prevent amoebic liver abscess." 06/01/1991 - "A successful modification of the indirect hemagglutination test to demonstrate antibodies for serodiagnosis of amebic liver abscess has been described in the present study" 08/01/2005 - "In addition, anti-Entamoeba histolytica antibodies from amoebic liver abscess patients recognized a richer antigenic Western blot pattern in the IC:MC fraction than in crude extract alone or with inhibitor" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
9.	Chloroquine (Aralen)FDA LinkGeneric 01/01/1951 - "Four cases of amebic liver abscess cured with chloroquine." 10/01/1953 - "The toxicity of chloroquine in hepatic amoebiasis in Africans." 04/11/1953 - "Chloroquine in the treatment of amoebic liver abscess." 02/01/1952 - "Chloroquine treatment of amebic liver abscess." 10/01/1951 - "The treatment of hepatic amoebiasis with chloroquine." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
10.	DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)IBA 12/10/1999 - "Our study indicates that DNA vaccination with SREHP can provide high levels of protection against amebic liver abscess in animal models of disease." 12/10/1999 - "A single dose of the SREHP DNA vaccine protected 80% of vaccinated mice and 60% of vaccinated gerbils from developing amebic liver abscess after direct hepatic inoculation of amebic trophozoites" 04/01/2007 - "Detection of Entamoeba histolytica DNA from liver abscess aspirate using polymerase chain reaction (PCR): a diagnostic tool for amoebic liver abscess." 09/01/2000 - "Direct amplification of Entamoeba histolytica DNA from amoebic liver abscess pus using polymerase chain reaction." 04/01/1995 - "Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to diagnose amebic liver abscess by detecting pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica DNA in liver aspirates from patients with liver abscess" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
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Therapies and Procedures

1.	Drug Therapy (Chemotherapy) 07/01/1989 - "Fifty patients with 56 amebic liver abscesses found to be resistant to drug therapy were included in the study" 08/01/2000 - "We conclude that PCD is a most useful adjunct to drug therapy and recommend its routine use in the management of drug-resistant amoebic liver abscesses." 12/01/1990 - "Among them, development of a culture method applying diphasic medium, studies on virulence of the strains collected in Korea, and a combination of aspiration method and chemotherapy to treat amebic liver abscess are seen to have been contributing to the eventual goal of reducing this protozoa infection from the land." 11/25/1989 - "CONCLUSIONS--Chemotherapy with potent tissue amoebicidal drugs such as metronidazole is optimally effective in treating amoebic liver abscess, and in uncomplicated cases routine aspiration is not required." 06/01/1990 - "Twenty (55.5%) of 36 clinically suspected cases of amoebic liver abscess had amoebic antigen-specific CIC and responded favourably to anti-amoebic chemotherapy" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
2.	Aftercare (After-Treatment) 12/01/1987 - "Magnetic resonance images were obtained before and after treatment in 17 patients with 29 amebic liver abscesses" 07/01/1992 - "We performed a prospective, controlled study of the T lymphocyte subpopulations in 17 patients with amoebic liver abscess before, and at 4 and 8 weeks after treatment with metronidazole (30 mg/kg/day)" 11/01/1999 - "METHODS: The role of cytokines--tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin 2 (IL-2) in blood and pus aspirate was studied in 20 patients of amoebic liver abscess (ALA), before and after treatment and 10 controls" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
3.	Laparotomy 04/01/1988 - "Another 7 patients who did not have an arteriogram, 9 with surgical emergencies, and 2 mistakenly believed to have an amoebic hepatic abscess also underwent laparotomy" 05/03/1975 - "Five of the patients with amoebic liver abscess underwent laparotomy soon after admission because of upper abdominal symptoms and signs which resembled those of other surgical conditions" 07/01/1983 - "At University College Hospital, Ibadan, in a two-year period from June 1975 to May 1977, six cases of unruptured amoebic liver abscess underwent emergency exploratory laparotomy because they presented as cases of acute abdomen" 03/01/1973 - "Treatment of intrapericardial rupture of amebic liver abscess by epigastric pericardotomy combined with medial laparotomy]" 08/01/1977 - "We believe that intraperitoneal rupture of amebic liver abscess can now be treated by laparotomy with much better results than were possible before the advent of drugs such as metronidazole." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
4.	Intensive Care (Surgical Intensive Care) 05/01/2005 - "In addition to parenteral metronidazole treatment and early ultrasound-guided aspiration of the abscess, intensive care is vital for the treatment of neonates with amebic liver abscesses." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
5.	X-Ray Film 02/01/1987 - "But, as a diffuse shadow appeared in the right thoracic cavity on the chest x-ray films with bloody sputa, perforation of amebic liver abscess to the right thoracic cavity was suspected" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
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