Amoebic liver abscess risk factors
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Yamuna Kondapally, M.B.B.S[2]
Overview
Risk factors
Risk factors for amoebic liver abscess include:[1][2]
- Alcoholism
- Cancer
- Pregnancy
- Malnutrition
- Old age
- Immunosupression (including HIV)
- Recent travel to a tropical region
- Steroid use
- Hypoalbuminemia
- Chronic infection
- Tuberculosis
- Syphilis
- Splenectomy
- Malignancy
- Homosexual
- ↑ Krogstad DJ, Spencer HC, Healy GR, Gleason NN, Sexton DJ, Herron CA (1978). "Amebiasis: epidemiologic studies in the United States, 1971-1974". Ann Intern Med. 88 (1): 89–97. PMID 619763.
- ↑ Ximénez C, Morán P, Rojas L, Valadez A, Gómez A, Ramiro M; et al. (2011). "Novelties on amoebiasis: a neglected tropical disease". J Glob Infect Dis. 3 (2): 166–74. doi:10.4103/0974-777X.81695. PMC 3125031. PMID 21731305.