Liver Abscess Versus Verminosis: A Review - Abstract
The objective of the present review was to update the understanding of the types of liver abscesses, namely: pyogenic, amoebic and fungal and relate this pathology with verminosis, in general. Liver abscesses remain a challenge in clinical medicine throughout the world, whether in its diagnosis and or even in its therapy. In “short” it is a serious disease that affects 8-22 individuals per group of 100,000 inhabitants. In recent decades, there have occurred changes in epidemiology, advances in diagnostics and the emergence of new therapeutic alternatives; however some causes for such pathology are still common. Medical
literature discusses that parasitism is still a common cause and salutary in the understanding of liver abscess. However, in recent literature it’s been evidenced
that the presence of gastrointestinal helminth parasites in preschool aged children has a direct relationship with pyogenic liver abscess. It’s concluded that the pyogenic liver abscess is the most common type and has verminosis as one of its main causes.