G. Gunnarsson et al., LIVER-ABSCESSES DUE TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS IN A PATIENT WITH AIDS WHO UNDERWENT SMALL-BOWEL BIOPSY - CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW, Clinical infectious diseases, 18(5), 1994, pp. 802-804
A 36-year-old man with overgrowth of Staphylococcus aureus in the smal
l bowel underwent a biopsy of the small bowel and presented 5 weeks la
ter with multiple liver abscesses. To our knowledge, small bowel biops
y has never been associated with liver abscesses. We discuss the liter
ature on liver abscesses in patients with AIDS and the risks of bacter
emia following upper endoscopy and small bowel biopsy and propose that
the etiology of the liver abscesses in our patient was seeding of the
portal vein following biopsy of a small bowel that had significant ba
cterial overgrowth.