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Query: UMLS:C0019209 (hepatomegaly)
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Perihepatitis, one manifestation of complicated gonorrhea, is infrequently diagnosed and reported. This study was undertaken to examine the incidence of gonococcal perihepatitis in adolescents as well as to study the effect, if any, of this condition on tests of liver function. Accordingly, the records of 137 adolescents with salpingitis were evaluated. Right upper quadrant tenderness or hepatic enlargement was noted in 27, while amino transferase level elevations were observed in 19 of the 59 in whom these tests were performed. All findings resolved promptly following initiation of intravenous penicillin therapy. The observation of hepatic dysfunction in 27% of these adolescents suggests that perihepatitis occurs more frequently than reported in adults and should be considered in the evaluation of the conditions of adolescents with salpingitis or upper abdominal tenderness.
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PMID:Perihepatitis associated with salpingitis in adolescents. 9 46

An acute septicemic disease was reported in 1-to-2-week-old white pekin ducklings on eight Long Island duck farms. Gross lesions were primarily hepatomegaly and enlarged necrotic spleens. Fibrinous pericarditis, perihepatitis, and airsacculitis were observed in some birds. Mortality ranged from 0.5 to 5%. Streptococcus faecium was isolated from heart blood, livers, lungs, and spleens of sick or dead ducklings. Serologically, all isolates belonged to Lancefield Serogroup D. The disease was reproduced in 8-day-old susceptible ducklings by parenteral infection. The lesions were indistinguishable from those observed in field outbreaks. Novobiocin at 350 g per ton of feed was effective in controlling mortality in the field.
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PMID:Fecal streptococcal infection of commercial white pekin ducklings. 319 74