‘Even in the antibiotic groups there was still a roughly 20% treatment failure rate’. How should this new evidence change practice? A strategy of routinely treating all skin abscesses with adjunctive ...

After initial resistance to systemic antibiotic treatment, she underwent radiologically-guided drainage of the abscesses, whereon she had a continuous recovery. A 24-year-old Caucasian gravida I para ...

This is a rare bacterium that can cause potentially fatal liver abscesses. Following drainage and intravenous antibiotic treatment, the patient improved and was discharged on a 4-week antibiotic ...

Abscess location did not accurately predict the portal of entry. 67% were treated by burr hole aspiration, 20% by craniotomy and 13% by antibiotics alone. Median duration of antibiotic treatment ...

recent or current antibiotic usage or any contraindication to the use of TMP-SMX. The diagnosis of skin abscess was made clinically or with bedside ultrasound performed by the treating physician.

Conclusion There is a clear difference between children and infants with brain abscess in terms of predisposing factors, causative organisms and outcome. Despite surgical drainage and directed ...