Title

Pigtail catheter versus open surgical drainage in liver abscess management

Authors

Mahesh Kinikar*, Nitin R. Nangare & Hemchandra V. Nerlekar

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Krishna Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), Karad, Maharashtra, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Mahesh Kinikar - E - mail: maheshkinikar91@gmail.com
Nitin R. Nangare - E - mail: docnitiraj@gmail.com
Hemchandra V. Nerlekar - E - mail: nerlekarhv@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received March 1, 2025; Revised March 31, 2025; Accepted March 31, 2025, Published March 31, 2025

Abstract

Individualized treatment programs for liver abscesses are essential. Therefore it is of interest to compare and evaluate pigtail-catheter with open surgical drainage in liver abscesses. Hence, a total of 126 patients were divided randomly into 2 groups with 63 each open surgical drainage group and pigtail-catheter drainage group. We found that statistically significant difference was seen between the 2 groups for various variables. Moreover, pigtail-catheter drainage showed comparatively more effective results than open surgical drainage.

Keywords

Open surgical drainage, pigtail catheter, post-hospital stay, post-operative pain, post-operative time

Citation

Kinikar et al. Bioinformation 21(3): 414-417 (2025)

Edited by

Neelam Goyal & Shruti Dabi

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.