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An Unusual Case of Ruptured Amoebic Liver Abscess into the Pericardium via Hepato Pericardial Fistula

1Department of Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Mission Medical College, Aurangabad, India

2Department of Cardiology, Mahatma Gandhi Mission Medical College, Aurangabad, India


American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2020, Vol. 8 No. 12, 515-517
DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-8-12-23
Copyright © 2020 Science and Education Publishing

Cite this paper:
Richa Rajput, Abhinav Chhabra, Rohit Jacob. An Unusual Case of Ruptured Amoebic Liver Abscess into the Pericardium via Hepato Pericardial Fistula. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2020; 8(12):515-517. doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-8-12-23.

Correspondence to: Abhinav  Chhabra, Department of Cardiology, Mahatma Gandhi Mission Medical College, Aurangabad, India. Email: jacsrohit@gmail.com

Abstract

Diagnosing a rare disease is challenging but unravelling the rare findings of a common disease is motivating! One such common disease dealt in the case report below is Amoebiasis. Amoebiasis is a major public health problem worldwide. Mortality due to amebiasis is mostly by extra intestinal infections, amebic liver abscess being the most common one. Overall, 10% of the world’s population is infected with Entamoeba histolytica (E. histolytica) but out of this only 1% becomes symptomatic. Nearly 20% of the Indian population show manifestations of the disease. With this background epidemiological prevalence, we present an unusual case of a 30year old male with a ruptured amoebic liver abscess into the pericardium.

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