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2008 JAN 17 -- According to recent research published in the International Journal of Laboratory Hematology, "We report a case of a 16-year-old female patient with sickle-cell disease with a liver abscess secondary to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). She had initially presented with jaundice and abdominal pain and subsequently underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreaticography followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy for removal of gallstones."

"However, post-cholecystectomy she presented with generalized abdominal pain and computed tomography scan of the abdomen revealed a liver abscess. A pigtail catheter was inserted into the abscess and culture of the aspirate yielded MRSA (susceptibility pattern of the organism was compatible with community-acquired MRSA)," wrote M. Mancao and colleagues.

The researchers concluded: "She was treated with intravenous clindamycin for 6 weeks with complete resolution of the abscess."

Mancao and colleagues published their study in International Journal of Laboratory Hematology (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus hepatic abscess in a patient with sickle-cell disease. International Journal of Laboratory Hematology, 2007;29(6):474-477).

For additional information, contact M. Mancao, University of Southern Alabama, College Medical, Dept. of Pediatrics, 1504 Springhill Avenue, Room 5224, Mobile, AL 36604, USA.

The publisher's contact information for the International Journal of Laboratory Hematology is: Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Rd., Oxford OX4 2DQ, Oxon, England.

Keywords: United States, Mobile, Abdominal Pain, Abscess, Antimicrobial Resistance, Community-Acquired, Drug Resistance, Gallstones, Gastroenterology, Hematology, Jaundice, Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, Pancreas, Sickle Cell Anemia, Sickle Cell Disease, Surgery, Therapy, Treatment.

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