Endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage of a fungal liver abscess using a lumen-apposing metal stent: case report and literature review

Felice Molinario; Mihai Rimbaş; Giuseppe Alessandro Pirozzi; Gianenrico Rizzatti; Gianluca Spera; Guido Costamagna; Alberto Larghi

doi:10.2478/rjim-2020-0035

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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage of a fungal liver abscess using a lumen-apposing metal stent: case report and literature review

Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine

Volume 59 (2021): Issue 1 (March 2021)

By: Felice Molinario, Mihai Rimbaş, Giuseppe Alessandro Pirozzi, Gianenrico Rizzatti, Gianluca Spera, Guido Costamagna and Alberto Larghi

Open Access

|Mar 2021

Abstract

Liver abscesses are rare entities for which percutaneous drainage is traditionally employed. The technique is simple, but associated with a significant rate of side effects and patient discomfort. We herein report a case of fungal left liver lobe abscess that was successfully treated by using EUS-guided drainage, with insertion of a large caliber lumen-apposing metal stent. The literature review we performed on the topic seems to favor, at least for abscess in the left and/or caudate liver lobes, EUS as compared to percutaneous drainage.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjim-2020-0035 | Journal eISSN: 2501-062X | Journal ISSN: 1220-4749

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Language: English

Page range: 93 - 98

Submitted on: Oct 7, 2020

Published on: Mar 5, 2021

Published by: N.G. Lupu Internal Medicine Foundation

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

endoscopic ultrasound,

liver abscess,

drainage,

lumen apposing metal stents,

Related subjects:

Internal medicine, other,

Cardiology,

Gastroenterology,

Rheumatology

© 2021 Felice Molinario, Mihai Rimbaş, Giuseppe Alessandro Pirozzi, Gianenrico Rizzatti, Gianluca Spera, Guido Costamagna, Alberto Larghi, published by N.G. Lupu Internal Medicine Foundation
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