Anna Barbiero, Sasha Trevisan, Tommaso Manciulli, Jessica Mencarini, Annalisa Cavallo, Costanza Fiorelli, Alessandro Bartoloni, Michele Spinicci, Lorenzo Zammarchi
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Despite being relatively common in endemic settings, amoebic liver abscesses are rarely diagnosed in high-resource countries, where they are usually imported by migrants or travelers to endemic areas. Between 2010 and 2024, we observed two cases of amoebic liver abscess that were successfully managed in a tertiary-care center in Italy. In both cases, the infection was contracted in Colombia. Given the high morbidity and mortality associated with nontreated amoebic liver abscesses, this report aims at underlying the importance of travel history and of considering amoebic liver abscess among the differential diagnoses for people coming from endemic countries with compatible clinical presentations. Prompt diagnosis and treatment are of paramount importance for favorable clinical outcomes.
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