To compare the outcome of patients undergoing conservative management versus ultrasound guided aspiration of small amoebic liver abscess (=<200ml). This observational prospective study was conducted on 60 patients, aged between 18 to 80 years,After confirming the diagnosis, patients were exposed to medical management or USG guided Aspiration. Patients coming for regular follow-up after completing treatment were included in the study. It was found that the majority of the patients were male (86.7%) and with mean age of the studied patients was 37.10±12.66 years. Chief complaints were pain (100%) followed by fever (85.0%) and Nausea/Vomiting (48.3%) pallor (33.3%), icterus (25.0%) and Tenderness (16.7%). Majority of patients had the right lobe of the liver affected (93.4 %) with Single abscess (94.0%). Duration of Hospital stay and time of half reduction in size was significantly higher in conservative management than the USG guided Aspiration. Reoccurrence of abscess in conservative management was in 6 (20.0%) and need of Surgical intervention was in 4 (13.3%) patients while in USG guided Aspiration group only 1 (3.3%) patient shows Reoccurrence. No mortality was observed in our study. In the present study abscess containing volume of pus (<200 cc) was treated with either conservative treatment or USG guidedAspiration. Our data suggested that the USG guided Aspiration and conservative medical management in treatment ofAmoebic liver abscess are almost equal.
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