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Comparative Study
. 2018 Oct 1;18(1):144.
doi: 10.1186/s12876-018-0875-y.

A comparison of pyogenic liver abscess in patients with or without diabetes: a retrospective study of 246 cases

Wenfei Li  1 , Hongjie Chen  1 , Shuai Wu  1 , Jie Peng  2
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Comparative Study

A comparison of pyogenic liver abscess in patients with or without diabetes: a retrospective study of 246 cases

Wenfei Li et al. BMC Gastroenterol. .

Abstract

Background: Pyogenic liver abscess(PLA) has become common in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), but it is unclear whether differences exist between patients with and without DM. A retrospective study was performed to identify these differences, summarize the clinical experience, and improve the diagnosis and treatment of PLA.

Methods: The patients were enrolled in a teaching hospital from January 2012 to December 2016. The patients were separated into two groups based on comorbidity with diabetes mellitus (DM). The DM group was further separated into two subgroups according to the HbA1C concentration to investigate whether glycaemic control affected the clinical characteristics of PLA patients with DM. Chi-square, Fisher's exact test, and t-tests were used to analyse and evaluate differences between the two groups.

Results: Two hundred and forty-six PLA patients were identified and 90 (36.6%) had comorbid DM. Patients with DM were older, had higher levels of alkaline phosphatase and γ-glutamyl transferase, hypertension, a loss of body weight, a single abscess, and combined antibiotic therapy with the use of carbapenems and Klebsiella pneumoniae in their blood cultures but a less frequent history of abdominal surgery and Escherichia coli in their pus cultures. When DM patients were compared to non-DM patients, each of these differences was significant (P < 0.05). Diabetic PLA patients with poor glycaemic control had a significantly higher proportion of fever and both lobes abscess(P < 0.05).

Conclusion: PLA patients with diabetes are older, have more serious complications, a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease, an increased use of combined antibiotic therapy with carbapenem, and K. pneumoniae as the predominant pathogen, but these patients had fewer abdominal surgeries and fewer E. coli infections. In addition, poorly controlled glycaemia in diabetic PLA patients is associated with high incidence of fever and both lobes abscess.

Keywords: Diabetes; Diagnosis; Pyogenic liver abscess; Treatment.

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The study was approved by the clinical research ethics committee of Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University. Written informed consent was obtained by all of the participants.

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