Klebsiella pneumoniae Liver Abscess: An Emerging Disease

Tasaduq Fazili; Calden Sharngoe; Timothy Endy; Deana Kiska; Waleed Javaid; Mark Polhemus

doi:10.1016/j.amjms.2015.12.018

Klebsiella pneumoniae Liver Abscess: An Emerging Disease

Am J Med Sci. 2016 Mar;351(3):297-304. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2015.12.018.

Authors

Tasaduq Fazili¹, Calden Sharngoe², Timothy Endy², Deana Kiska³, Waleed Javaid², Mark Polhemus²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York.
³ the Division of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (DK), SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York.

PMID: 26992260
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjms.2015.12.018

Abstract

Most of the cases of Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess reported early on were from Asia, predominantly Taiwan, with a significant number of patients being middle aged diabetic men, and developing metastatic complications, especially endophthalmitis. The entity is now being increasingly recognized in the United States. In this article, the authors review those reported cases, and also the literature regarding the pathophysiology of this intriguing syndrome.

Keywords: Emerging disease; Hyperviscous phenotype; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Liver abscess; United States.

Published by Elsevier Inc.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Communicable Diseases, Emerging / diagnosis*
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology
Humans
Klebsiella Infections / diagnosis*
Klebsiella Infections / epidemiology
Klebsiella pneumoniae* / isolation & purification
Liver Abscess / diagnosis*
Liver Abscess / epidemiology