Abstract

MULET SANTIESTEBAN, Isabel María et al. Presentation of a Neonate with Liver Abscess. ccm [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.3, pp. 542-547. ISSN 1560-4381.

During neonatal period the liver abscess is not frequent, generally with bad prognosis. A male late preterm neonate of good weight, with one hepatic abscess, secondary to a venous umbilical catheterization was presented in this paper, which was diagnosed by ultrasound and clinical method after 15 days of age, performed for a blood exchange transfusion due to isoinmunization Rh. His clinical and untrasonographic evolution and the used antimicrobic therapy were described. The abscess surgical drain was not performed.

Keywords : liver abscess; newborn; venous umbilical catheterization.

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