Subphrenic Abscess (Subdiaphragmatic Abscess)

01/01/1987 - "However, we found no significant reduction in cardiac dysrhythmias (TEA 7%, TEA + GA 7% and GA 10%), ST-segment depression (TEA 17%), TEA + GA 3.3% and GA 12.5%), wound complication (TEA 3%, TEA + GA 0%, GA 0%), pneumonia (TEA 3%, TEA + GA 3% and GA 0%), subphrenic abscess (TEA 6%, TEA + GA 0%, GA 3%), mortality (TEA 0%, TEA + GA 3%, GA 0%), and urinary tract infect (TEA 17%, TEA + GA 7% and GA 2.5%). "

01/01/2007 - "We report an IgA deficient patient with recurrent episodes of unusual extrapulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis including subdiaphragmatic abscesses and metacarpophalangeal osteomyelitis that was improved each time with antituberculosis drugs. "

05/01/1976 - "Aspects of pathology, clinical presentation, special investigations and management were affected by therapy with broad spectrum antibiotics to make diagnosis more difficult, particularly in relation to left subphrenic abscesses. "
08/01/1974 - "In this series subphrenic abscess was best treated by early surgical drainage combined with the use of appropriate antibiotics."
03/01/1970 - "Subphrenic abscess: the place of antibiotics."
08/01/1964 - "SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS: A THORACOABDOMINAL CLINICAL COMPLEX: THE CHANGING PICTURE WITH ANTIBIOTICS."
09/01/1957 - "[Subphrenic abscess with thoracic development; cure by antibiotics after vomica]."

06/01/2012 - "Gentamicin surgical implants not only fail to reduce the risk of subphrenic abscesses in splenectomized patients, but may contribute to the increase in its incidence, which puts into question the possible benefits of this form of prophylaxis."
06/01/2012 - "Evaluation the local antibiotic prophylaxis using a gentamicin surgical implant in order to reduce SSI, particularly subphrenic abscesses. "
02/01/1997 - "The authors describe two case-histories where Garamycin-schwamm was used in the treatment of a chronic fistula and cavities in the subphrenium resulting from treatment of a subphrenic abscess, and in the pelvis minor as a result of a fistula which developed after establishment of an ileoanal intestinal pouch. "
06/01/2012 - "Infective complications occurred in 4 (6.67%) among 60 patients from the entire study group; 2 in patients with ITP and a gentamicin implant who developed fever of unknown cause which resolved after systemic antibiotics, and 2 in patients with NHL and gentamicin prophylaxis who developed a subphrenic abscess. "

06/01/2012 - "Infective complications occurred in 4 (6.67%) among 60 patients from the entire study group; 2 in patients with ITP and a gentamicin implant who developed fever of unknown cause which resolved after systemic antibiotics, and 2 in patients with NHL and gentamicin prophylaxis who developed a subphrenic abscess. "

11/15/1951 - "[Streptomycin in conservative therapy of subdiaphragmatic abscess]."
05/01/1951 - "[Local streptomycin therapy of subphrenic abscess]."

08/31/1978 - "Conversely, gallium detected a left subphrenic abscess missed by ultrasound. "
10/01/1974 - "Gallium-technetium subtraction scanning for the localization of subphrenic abscess."

01/01/1993 - "Seven deaths were recorded in this series, including one from anaphylactic shock associated with intracystic injection of formalin, 3 from bronchopulmonary complications, 2 from subphrenic abscesses and 1 after surgical revision for evisceration on the 5th day. "
09/01/1914 - "THE TREATMENT OF EMPYEMA, SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS, ETC., BY ASPIRATION FOLLOWED BY INJECTION OF FORMALIN SOLUTION."

04/01/1975 - "Four septic patients with suspected subphrenic abscess were evaluated with gallium-67 citrate and technetium-99m labeled radiopharmaceuticals. "

04/01/1975 - "Four septic patients with suspected subphrenic abscess were evaluated with gallium-67 citrate and technetium-99m labeled radiopharmaceuticals. "

08/01/1995 - "The purpose of this study was to compare the safety and efficacy of transpleural and extrapleural approaches for draining left subphrenic abscesses in patients who have had splenectomy. "
05/01/2004 - "The postoperative course was regular with no mortality and no major morbidity in 14 patients, while 1 patient submitted to splenectomy developed a subphrenic abscess that required surgical drainage. "
09/01/1999 - "[The role of computed tomography in assessing subphrenic abscesses after posttraumatic splenectomy]."
03/01/1999 - "Subphrenic abscesses were more frequently observed in the Conservative Group than in the Splenectomy Group (p < 0.05). "
05/01/1988 - "Splenectomy did not influence the incidence of subphrenic abscess. "

09/01/1978 - "As the patient did not respond to conservative treatment, nephrectomy and drainage of subphrenic abscess were done and the patient improved rapidly."
10/01/2002 - "Through a 5-mm primary access and 3- or 5-mm secondary ports, retroperitoneoscopic surgery was performed in seven adults for ureterolithotomy, renal biopsy, simple nephrectomy, nephropexy, cyst decortication, or drainage of a subphrenic abscess. "
03/01/1981 - "In the five patients presented here, gas-containing subphrenic abscesses were mimicked by air in loops of ileum; partially loculated air due to subphrenic adhesions in the post-laparotomy patient; layering of denser barium below with gastric content above in a patient with gastric outlet obstruction; and gas in the renal bed after nephrectomy."

09/06/1975 - "An intrahepatic and subphrenic abscess was diagnosed clinically and by liver scan and confirmed by laparotomy. "
01/01/2000 - "The patient required further laparotomy on day 10 for drainage and debridement of a subphrenic abscess. "
07/01/2008 - "One patient required laparotomy for subphrenic abscess, and one patient (American Society of Anesthesiology [ASA] grade 4, presenting with biliary peritonitis) died 2 days postoperatively. "
06/01/2001 - "At exploratory laparotomy, a right subphrenic abscess and general peritonitis without an intra-abdominal focus were found. "
11/01/1994 - "One patient died as the result of perioperative splenic rupture, and two patients underwent second laparotomies because of left subphrenic abscesses. "

01/01/1990 - "Subphrenic abscesses occurred most frequently after total gastrectomies at a rate of 17 of 197 (8.8%) cases. "
01/01/1989 - "Among 141 total gastrectomies, 14 patients developed subphrenic abscesses. "
12/01/2006 - "A 66-year-old woman developed a primary subphrenic abscess secondary to anastomotic leakage after total gastrectomy. "
08/01/2005 - "The most common postoperative complications of total gastrectomy are esophagojejunal anastomotic leakage and subphrenic abscess. "
01/01/1990 - "In 384 cases of distal gastrectomy, only 6 (1.6%) cases with a subphrenic abscess occurred, and only 3 were due to anastomotic leakage. "

01/01/2014 - "The diagnosis was made through computed tomography, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated from the purulent drainage of the subphrenic abscess, the catheter tip and exit site, and the blood culture samples. "
06/01/2008 - "A Staphylococcus epidermidis was isolated both from the ventricular catheter and CSF and from the subphrenic abscess and the gallbladder. "
12/01/1999 - "There was no perioperative mortality; but in 2 cases we had postoperative subphrenic abscesses which were successfully managed by catheter drainage. "
10/01/1990 - "One patient developed a postoperative left subphrenic abscess drained percutaneously by the guidance of ultrasonography, a complication that could not be attributed to the catheter system but merely to the major operation per se. "
05/01/1989 - "[Drainage of a left subphrenic abscess through a percutaneous catheter in children]."