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

Richa Rajput¹, Abhinav Chhabra^2, and Rohit Jacob¹

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

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

Cite this paper:
Richa Rajput, Abhinav Chhabra and 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

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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