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Multidisciplinary out‐patient treatment with monitoring by telemedicine for a large‐volume multifocal pyogenic liver abscess in times of the pandemic
Pyogenic liver abscesses represent one of the rarer, but potentially life‐threatening diseases of the liver. The treatment for large‐volume liver abscesses is usually multimodal with percutaneous drainage combined with several days of treatment in hospital. We are presenting a report on a male patie...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8543053/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34721853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4970 |
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author | Tebbe, Johannes J. Kulamadayil‐Heidenreich, Nidhi‐Su‐Ann Heidenreich, Holger Bongartz, Hans‐Georg Tebbe, Sandra |
author_facet | Tebbe, Johannes J. Kulamadayil‐Heidenreich, Nidhi‐Su‐Ann Heidenreich, Holger Bongartz, Hans‐Georg Tebbe, Sandra |
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description | Pyogenic liver abscesses represent one of the rarer, but potentially life‐threatening diseases of the liver. The treatment for large‐volume liver abscesses is usually multimodal with percutaneous drainage combined with several days of treatment in hospital. We are presenting a report on a male patient with type‐2 diabetes mellitus who suffered from a multifocal liver abscess (>10 cm). Due to the exceptional situation caused by the corona pandemic, the patient was treated conservatively with non‐standard treatment which involved a multidisciplinary team and out‐patient visits. Follow‐up to ensure the treatment would be successful was carried through dialogue with the GP responsible for the patient's care, as well as daily telemedicine visits. The daily telemedicine visits were supplemented by episodic follow‐up testing of laboratory values and contrast‐enhanced ultrasound scans (CEUS) of the liver. We show that purely conservative therapy can be successful in a case with a high risk of mortality by using a combination of close telemedical monitoring and proactive interdisciplinary collaboration with the GP. |
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spelling | pubmed-85430532021-10-29 Multidisciplinary out‐patient treatment with monitoring by telemedicine for a large‐volume multifocal pyogenic liver abscess in times of the pandemic Tebbe, Johannes J. Kulamadayil‐Heidenreich, Nidhi‐Su‐Ann Heidenreich, Holger Bongartz, Hans‐Georg Tebbe, Sandra Clin Case Rep Case Report Pyogenic liver abscesses represent one of the rarer, but potentially life‐threatening diseases of the liver. The treatment for large‐volume liver abscesses is usually multimodal with percutaneous drainage combined with several days of treatment in hospital. We are presenting a report on a male patient with type‐2 diabetes mellitus who suffered from a multifocal liver abscess (>10 cm). Due to the exceptional situation caused by the corona pandemic, the patient was treated conservatively with non‐standard treatment which involved a multidisciplinary team and out‐patient visits. Follow‐up to ensure the treatment would be successful was carried through dialogue with the GP responsible for the patient's care, as well as daily telemedicine visits. The daily telemedicine visits were supplemented by episodic follow‐up testing of laboratory values and contrast‐enhanced ultrasound scans (CEUS) of the liver. We show that purely conservative therapy can be successful in a case with a high risk of mortality by using a combination of close telemedical monitoring and proactive interdisciplinary collaboration with the GP. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8543053/ /pubmed/34721853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4970 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Tebbe, Johannes J. Kulamadayil‐Heidenreich, Nidhi‐Su‐Ann Heidenreich, Holger Bongartz, Hans‐Georg Tebbe, Sandra Multidisciplinary out‐patient treatment with monitoring by telemedicine for a large‐volume multifocal pyogenic liver abscess in times of the pandemic |
title | Multidisciplinary out‐patient treatment with monitoring by telemedicine for a large‐volume multifocal pyogenic liver abscess in times of the pandemic |
title_full | Multidisciplinary out‐patient treatment with monitoring by telemedicine for a large‐volume multifocal pyogenic liver abscess in times of the pandemic |
title_fullStr | Multidisciplinary out‐patient treatment with monitoring by telemedicine for a large‐volume multifocal pyogenic liver abscess in times of the pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Multidisciplinary out‐patient treatment with monitoring by telemedicine for a large‐volume multifocal pyogenic liver abscess in times of the pandemic |
title_short | Multidisciplinary out‐patient treatment with monitoring by telemedicine for a large‐volume multifocal pyogenic liver abscess in times of the pandemic |
title_sort | multidisciplinary out‐patient treatment with monitoring by telemedicine for a large‐volume multifocal pyogenic liver abscess in times of the pandemic |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8543053/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34721853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4970 |
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