Table 1.

Case reports of pyogenic liver abscesses associated with S t reptococcus intermedius bacteremia for the past 10 years on PubMed, including age and gender, chief complaint, number of liver abscesses, size of liver abscesses, antibiotic regimen and length of treatment1 3 8 9

	Author and date	Age and gender	Presenting chief complaint	Number and size of liver abscesses	Treatment	Total treatment length	Outcome
1	Neumayr et al 1	18-year-old man	RUQ abdominal pain and remittent fevers	3 (largest measuring 9.8×9.5×9.8 cm)	Initial: Intravenous imipenem and penicillin G (dosing not reported) Final: Oral levofloxacin and metronidazole	7 weeks	Ultrasound of abdomen 35 days later showing minimal residual of one abscess, all others resolved
2	Livingston and Perez-Colon3	65-year-old man	RUQ abdominal pain, diarrhoea, nausea and poor appetite	1 (10.2×7.4×9.4 cm)	Initial: Intravenous iprofloxacin 400 mg every 12 hours and intravenous metronidazole 500 mg every 8 hours Final: Intravenous ceftriaxone 2 g daily	4 weeks	No follow-up imaging; significant clinical improvement
3	Tran et al 8	24-year-old man	Fevers, chills, myalgias and abdominal pain	Multiple-exact number and size unspecified	Initial: Intravenous ceftriaxone 2 g daily and azithromycin 500 mg daily Final: Penicillin 24 million units daily and low dose gentamicin	6 months	No follow-up imaging; significant clinical improvement
4	Tran et al 8	53-year-old woman	Nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and weight loss	Multiple-exact number unspecified (largest measuring 10×9.9 cm)	Initial: Imipenem 500 mg every 8 hours Final: Ceftriaxone 2 g daily	6 months	CT abdomen/pelvis 6 months later showing resolution of liver abscesses
5	Reddy et al 9	50-year-old man	Generalised abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and fever	4, size unspecified	Initial: Intravenous levofloxacin and intravenous metronidazole (dosing not reported) Final: Intravenous meropenem	6 weeks	CT abdomen/pelvis 9 months later showing complete resolution of hepatic abscesses

RUQ, right upper quadrant.