Clinical, Laboratory, and Management Profile in Patients of Liver Abscess from Northern India

Table 4

Management outcome: majority of patients were managed by needle aspiration. Surgical intervention was done in 8 patients, all for rupture, out of which 5 died.

	Parameters	Percentage (=n)
Abscess drainage	Percutaneous needle aspiration	79% (158)
	Pigtail drainage	17% (34)
	Open surgical	4% (8)
Change of antimicrobials required		25% (50)
Mean duration of	Hospitalisation	8 ± 5.36 days
	Treatment	33 ± 42 days
Surgical intervention		4% (8)
Mortality		2.5% (5)