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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus hepatic abscess in a patient with sickle-cell disease.

Mancao M, Estrada B, Wilson F, Figarola M, Wesenberg R

Department of Pediatrics, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, AL 36604, USA. mmancao@usouthal.edu

We report a case of a 16-year-old female patient with sickle-cell disease with a liver abscess secondary to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). She had initially presented with jaundice and abdominal pain and subsequently underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreaticography followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy for removal of gallstones. However, post-cholecystectomy she presented with generalized abdominal pain and computed tomography scan of the abdomen revealed a liver abscess. A pigtail catheter was inserted into the abscess and culture of the aspirate yielded MRSA (susceptibility pattern of the organism was compatible with community-acquired MRSA). She was treated with intravenous clindamycin for 6 weeks with complete resolution of the abscess.

Published 8 November 2007 in Int J Lab Hematol, 29(6): 474-7.
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