Table 2.

Mortality rates of surgical versus non-surgical therapy in patients with amebic liver abscess with diffuse peritoneal rupture

Ref.	n	Medical therapy (n)	Surgery (n)	Medical therapy1	Surgery
				Mortality (%)	Mortality (%)
Eggleston et al[104]	19	0	19	-	42
Memon et al[106]	36	20	16	5	37.5
Sarda et al[107]	16	8	8	0	50
Meng et al[40]	11	1	10	0	50
Baijal et al[108]	02	2	-	0	-
Bhatia et al[109]	43	43	0	-	26
Priyadarshi et al[19]	32	32	0	0.3	-
Greaney et al[105]2	08	3	5	0	20

¹Medical therapy included anti-amebic treatment along with percutaneous catheter drainage, with exception of one study.

²In which percutaneous drainage was not performed.