title: Liver abscess due to Yersinia bacteremia in a well-controlled type I diabetic patient.
abstract: Yersiniae enterocolitica, a gram negative rod-like organism, causes terminal ileitis and mesenteric adenitis in adolescents and adults. Some forms present with liver and spleen abscesses and have worse prognosis. We report a type 1 diabetic patient with a liver abscess mimicking metastatic liver disease who was successfully treated with percutaneous drainage and antibiotic administration; culture from blood was positive for Yersinia enterocolitica, but drainage material from the liver abscess did not yield a positive result for Yersinia enterocolitica. Although the prognosis is not good in such cases, with high mortality rates, our patient recovered from the disease with appropriate treatment.
authors: Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okmeydani Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors: Meral
authors: M
authors: Mert
authors: Gonenc
authors: G
authors: Kocabay
authors: Tamer
authors: T
authors: Ozülker
authors: Mustafa
authors: M
authors: Temizel
authors: Hakan
authors: H
authors: Yanar
authors: Ozlem
authors: O
authors: Uygun
authors: Filiz
authors: F
authors: Ozülker
authors: Yücel
authors: Y
authors: Arman
authors: Ertan
authors: E
authors: Cevizci
authors: Ali Cetin
authors: AC
authors: Olek
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications*; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D015009:Yersinia Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D015008:Yersinia enterocolitica / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18