title: Liver abscess after implantation of dental prosthesis.
abstract: Pyogenic liver abscesses are rare but a life-threatening important condition. Dental procedures constitute only rare cases of pyogenic liver abscesses, with only a few cases in the literature. We report a patient with liver abscess following a dental procedure. A 74 years old diabetic male patient was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fatigue, 40 °C fever, rigors and right upper quadrant pain, 3-4 d after a dental procedure. Physical examination revealed fever and tenderness in the right upper quadrant. Laboratory examination revealed leucocytosis, elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein and moderately elevated transaminases. An abscess was detected in radiological examination in the medial part of the left lobe of liver, neighboring the gall bladder. He was successfully treated with percutaneous abscess drainage and antibiotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Gokhan Gungor, Murat Biyik, Hakki Polat, Hilal Ciray, Orhan Ozbek, Ali Demir, Department of Gastroenterology, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya University, 42080 Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gokhan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gungor
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Biyik
authors.forename: Hakki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Polat
authors.forename: Hilal
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ciray
authors.forename: Orhan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ozbek
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Demir
keywords: Abscess treatment; Bacteremia; Dental procedures; Immunosuppression; Liver abscess